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Double-track FrontRunner? Maybe a gondola in Little Cottonwood Canyon? Lawmakers to drill down on budget

Ahh, that time of year when the Legislature pools their creative talents to stick it to Salt Lake City, women and environmentalists. This year’s assault on the greens includes a proposed tax on electric vehicles. To quote the sponsor,  Sen. Wayne Harper, we are “just trying to create parity here with the funds that everybody pays so everybody can pay for the same impact that they have on the roads of the state of Utah.”

<a href="https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0209.html">HB209</a> would impose a higher annual registration cost for electric vehicles in Utah. This disincentivizes the owning of EVs in Utah.

Though it's been floated as an idea for the 2021 session, legislative leaders aren't promising an across-the-board income tax rate cut this year, but they are aligned on reducing taxes in other ways.

Deseret News Share this story Kristin Murphy, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Though it’s been floated as an idea for the 2021 session, legislative leaders aren’t promising an across-the-board income tax rate cut this year, but they are aligned on reducing taxes in other ways. House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, and Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton, won’t say an income tax cut is “off the table,” but as of Friday it’s not a direction they’re heading. “Nothing is ever off the table until the last bill is run through the process,” Wilson told reporters. However, h...