Gas Tax of Each State

Gas tax from each state varies greatly from 8 cents per gal. in Alaska to 46.6 cents in California.

This is just the regular gas not diesel. Each number that is after each state is in cents. The Federal Gas Tax is 18.5.

The list:

1. California 46.6
2. New York 44.6
3. Hawaii 44.4
4. Connecticut 41.9
5. Illinois 39
6. Washington 37.5
7. Michigan 35
8. Florida 34.5
9. Indiana 34.1
10. Nevada 33.1
11. Rhode Island 33
12. Wisconsin 32.9
13. Pennsylvania 32.3
14. West Virginia 32.2
15. Maine 31
16. North Carolina 30.2
17. Ohio 28
18. Montana 27.8
19. Nebraska 27.7
20. Minnesota 27.2
21. Idaho 25
22. Kansas 25
23. Oregon 25
24. Utah 24.5
25. Vermont 24.5
26. South Dakota 24
27. Maryland 23.5
28. Massachusetts 23.5
29. Delaware 23
30. North Dakota 23
31. Kentucky 22.5
32. Colorado 22
33. Iowa 22
34. Arkansas 21.8
35. Tennessee 21.4
36. Alabama 20.9
37. Louisiana 20
38. Texas 20
39. New Hampshire 19.6
40. Virginia 19.5
41. Arizona 19
42. Mississippi 18.8
43. New Mexico 18.8
44. Missouri 17.3
45. Oklahoma 17
46. South Carolina 16.8
47. New Jersey 14.5
48. Wyoming 14
49. Georgia 12.4
50. Alaska 8

You add both state and Federal Gas tax together, in Minnesota case it would be 27.2+18.5=45.7 cents. Then subtract the total tax from the price you pay at the pump then you will get the real gas price. The average price of gas in Minnesota is $3.328-0.457=$2.871.

References:

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/245.html

http://www.minnesotagasprices.com/Prices_Nationally.aspx (3:16 PM 2/24/2011)