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138.660 Motor fuels tax -- Surtax -- Weight distance tax.
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(2)
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Every motor carrier, excluding charter bus operators registered pursuant to KRS
Chapter 281, shall pay a tax at the rate levied in KRS 138.220(1) and (2) on the
amount of gasoline and special fuels used in operations on the public highways of
this state.
In addition to the tax imposed in subsection (1) of this section, if the motor carrier is
a heavy equipment motor carrier as defined in KRS 138.655, he shall pay a surtax at
the rate of two percent (2%) of the average wholesale price as provided in
subsection (1) of this section, on the amount of gasoline and at the rate of four and
seven-tenths percent (4.7%) on the amount of special fuels used in operations on
public highways of this state.
Every motor carrier shall pay for every motor vehicle operated upon the public
highways of this state with a combined licensed weight in excess of fifty-nine
thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine (59,999) pounds a weight distance tax
computed at the rate of two and eighty-five hundredths cents ($0.0285) per mile.
Those taxes levied under this section shall be computed and paid as provided in
KRS 138.685 and 138.690.
Effective: July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 363, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended
1988 Ky. Acts ch. 175, sec. 4, effective April 1, 1988; and ch. 285, sec. 32, effective
August 1, 1988. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 174, sec. 1, effective January 1,
1987. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 111, sec. 77, effective July 13, 1984; and
ch. 151, sec. 5, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 265, sec. 6,
effective April 1, 1982. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 218, sec. 5, effective July 1,
1980. -- Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 6, sec. 3. -- Amended 1972
Ky. Acts ch. 61, sec. 7. -- Amended 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 70, sec. 15, effective July 1,
1958. -- Amended 1956 (2d Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 9, sec. 16. -- Created 1954 Ky.
Acts ch. 97, sec. 3.
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