Why is the Oregon weight-distance tax so high?

No just Oregon.

Indiana used to REALLY put it in your ###. They collected no IFTA, and still had huge fuel prices.

Indiana is on the IFTA now.

 

Not accurate. Indiana has been part of ifta as long as I remember. However they also had two additional taxes: 1 was sales tax, which you needed a valid mc # to be exempted from. 2: they were one of the surcharge states.

 

Yep you got the jist of it. It boils down to similar amount of tax dollars, just a different way of collecting it.

 

Btw, they just bumped it to .2150 a mile on January 1st.

We're also paying for grocery bags now. Saving the planet.

We're a hip State, don't you know.

 

No it's cheaper there for running in Oregon, because they collect no IFTA.

Usually it's cheaper if you are heading south into the communist state. California's IFTA is like 76 cents a gallon or some outrageous number. They add 10 or 12 percent state tax to the end as well.

Example -

My cost of fuel per gallon right now at a TA in Oregon is $2.37 gallon.

My cost of fuel in the communist state at a TA is $3.39 gallon. The communist state holds $0.76 gallon for IFTA.

So the actual cost of fuel is $3.39 - $0.76 = $2.63
OR
$0.26 more than in Oregon.

So you're better off fueling in Oregon, and sending IFTA a couple bucks than throwing a fiddy out the window filling in the communist state.

 

Utah is typically pretty good. You have to do the math. Sometimes Oregon will bump there's up, and it's cheaper to pay even in the communist state.