Fuel Storage Tax

<span style="font-weight: 400;">An appeals court in California <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/fueltax-1.pdf"><strong>overturned</strong></a> a voter-approved initiative authorizing the City of Rialto to tax fuel wholesalers, finding that it is an impermissible property tax as it is based on a facility’s fuel storage capacity regardless of whether fuel is actually being stored there. </span>

RIALTO, Calif. – An appeals court in California overturned a voter-approved initiative authorizing the city of Rialto to tax fuel wholesalers, finding that it is an impermissible property tax as it is based on a facility’s fuel-storage capacity regardless of whether fuel is actually being stored there.

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