Missouri Department of Transportation recently released information on the benefits of the current state motor fuels tax and other financial information related to roads and bridges.
- Each additional cent of state fuel tax collected by Missouri Department of Revenue results in approximately $27.8 million for MoDOT and $11.8 million for cities and counties.
The breakdown is 3.3 cents for cities; 2.75 cents for counties; 15.95 cents for MoDOT.
As of July 1, the state's motor fuels tax is 22 cents per gallon.
- Cost to resurface one lane of a major Missouri highway is $230,000 per mile; cost to resurface one lane of a minor state highway is $37,000 per mile; cost to resurface one lane of an interstate highway within Missouri boundaries is $260,000 per mile.
- Annual snow removal costs on state roads and bridges: $50 million.
- Litter pickup cost (five-year average): $6.2 million.
- Mowing cost (five-year average): $21.6 million.
- Missouri ranks No. 48 in the nation in revenue per mile for roads.
- Missouri has 10,387 bridges and culverts.
- Number of major bridges, with spans of at least 1,000 feet: 204.
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Tammi Hilton of St. Louis, with the help of state Department of Revenue staff, has created a fee-based app called NoMoGasTax, usable on some devices, to help state residents more easily track receipts necessary to obtain a gas tax reimbursement.
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