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State lawmakers grappling with how to fund former governor Robert F. McDonnellâs landmark 2013 transportation bill included a fail-safe measure that would increase the stateâs gas tax if Congress failed to deliver on online sales revenue by the start of 2015.
The Pennsylvania gas tax will rise eight cents per gallon on January 1, 2017. At 50 cents per gallon, the stateâs gas tax was already the highest in the country â and now it will be 58 cents, an increase of 16 percent. Thatâs not including a 18.4-cent federal excise tax, which brings the total tax paid to 76.4 cents per gallon. This jump is the third â and final â phase of hikes initiated by a 2013 state law, Act 89.