Gas Tax

State lawmakers are getting ready for Wednesday, when they’re unexpectedly coming back to the Ohio Statehouse to vote on a 90-day gas tax suspension.

Ohio lawmakers meet next week to consider a plan for a 90-day holiday from state taxes on gasoline and diesel.

If state lawmakers suspend Ohio’s gas tax for 90 days as they plan to do next week, it’s estimated to cost around $700 million.

Ohio lawmakers are largely on board with a 90-day gas tax holiday, but there are questions about the process and the money.

With lawmakers planning a Sept. 30 vote on a gas tax holiday pushed by Republican governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Democratic opponent Amy Acton is suggesting they take up data centers too.

Ohio lawmakers will be summoned back to Columbus next Wednesday, the leaders of the House and Senate said, for a rare and politicized last-minute session.

Both Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton made their comments Tuesday at the Ohio Farm Science Review in London Tuesday.

The announcement came a few hours after Vivek Ramaswamy's Democratic opponent Amy Acton called for a gas tax holiday in Ohio.

Ohio’s gas tax has a bigger impact than the federal gas tax, since it’s more than double that number.

President Biden is asking Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months and proposing that states do the same. In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss why Ohio is likely not going to join the effort.