gas tax

In effect, New Jersey’s gas tax is 43 cents per gallon, but every penny is dedicated to road building, repair and related transportation improvements — meaning Gov. Phil Murphy can be counted as a “no” on the tax holiday idea

President Biden is urging Congress to pass a bill creating a tax holiday on both gas and diesel for three months. News 4’s Brian Thompson has more details.

President Joe Biden said Monday that he’s considering a federal holiday on the gasoline tax, as the administration looks for ways to spare the public from higher prices at the pump, which began to climb last year and surged after Russia invaded Ukraine in February

New York’s gas tax holiday begins Wednesday, nominally cutting the price of a gallon of regular unleaded by 16 cents — but don’t assume your gas will necessarily be 16 cents cheaper tomorrow. Romney Smith reports.

Policy debates include rollbacks to a landmark 2019 law that largely did away with cash bail for nonviolent offenses, as well as the potential expansion of a law for people with mental illnesses. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

New York lawmakers finally settled on an overdue deal for the state’s new budget on Thursday, one that will include a gas tax holiday for most of this year. The budget, as introduced in the Assembly, would suspend portions of the state’s gas tax for both unleaded and diesel from June 1 to Dec. 31. The state now gets about…

New Jersey’s gas tax rate will decrease by 8.3 cents per gallon beginning Oct.1, the state’s treasury department announced Tuesday. According to the New Jersey Treasury, after a review of fuel consumption statistics and consultation with the Legislative Budget and Finance Officer, the gas tax rate will decrease in accordance with the 2016 law that requires a steady stream of…

NBC New York’s Tracie Strahan reports.

A New Jersey gas tax increase of 9.3 cents per gallon went into effect at midnight on Thursday. The state’s Department of the Treasury said the tax hike was due to “lower fuel consumption trends, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.” Consumption of gasoline fell by a total of 38.7 percent from March to May in the state,…

New Jersey’s Department of the Treasury announced a gas tax increase of 9.3 cents per gallon due to “lower fuel consumption trends, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.” The increase will go into effect this fall. According to the treasury department, consumption of gasoline fell by a total of 38.7 percent from March to May in the state….

In New Jersey, there’s a law that bans self-serve gasoline. Now, some workers say they fear catching the coronavirus when they pump gas for customers.

New Jersey’s gas tax won’t be going up in the coming year.

President Donald Trump dropped the pretense of working with congressional Democrats on Wednesday and sent a clear message that his re-election campaign will be centered on condemning overzealous investigations rather than advancing a robust domestic policy agenda. Both sides may have feigned surprise at Trump’s angry outburst, in which he said he won’t work with Democrats until they drop their...

President Donald Trump abruptly stalked out of a White House meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday, flatly declaring he would no longer work with Democrats unless they drop all investigations in the aftermath of the special counsel’s Trump-Russia report. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it all “very, very, very strange” and said she was praying for Trump and the nation. Trump...

New Jersey bolstered its reputation as one of the country’s highest-taxed states in 2018, raising rates on high income earners, businesses and motorists, and posting yet again among the nation’s highest average property tax bills.

On Dec. 4, President Donald Trump tweeted about French President Emmanuel Macron and the Paris Agreement, misrepresenting the foreign leader’s position on the climate accord. Macron has not said or suggested the Paris Agreement is “fatally flawed,” as Trump implied.

Gas is going up in the Garden State, a place where many people go to get better prices at the pumps.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says he can’t sign the Legislature’s $36.5 billion budget because it relies on what he calls unsustainable revenue.

NYPD officers helped an Upper East Side couple deliver their baby when the tenacious newborn wouldn’t wait around for a hospital.

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno launched her gubernatorial campaign on Tuesday, pledging to cut taxpayers’ burdens and accusing Democrats of making those burdens worse.