Brookings May Double Wheel Tax

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Brookings May Double Wheel Tax

By Ellen Serr

Story Created: Sep 2, 2008 at 7:41 AM CST

Story Updated: Sep 2, 2008 at 7:41 AM CST

Brookings County officials are scheduled today to consider a doubling of the wheel tax, which is now $2 per wheel, or a maximum of $8 per vehicle.

County commissioners say they need the extra revenues for road and bridge work.  Doubling of the tax would raise an extra $191,000 a year for those projects.  Even if the commission votes to increase the wheel tax, it could be referred to a public vote if petitions are circulated and enough signatures are obtained.

Forty of South Dakota's 66 counties impose a wheel tax.  Twenty-three of them have the $16-per-vehicle maximum tax allowed by state law.

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