07-31-2017, 12:46 PM
I sent this message to Ruggles. I'll post here if I get a response:
"Aloha Jen,
I understand that the gas tax goes up tomorrow. My question is regarding travel on non-public roads. Every day during my commute I travel 5 miles in a private subdivision where I pay road fees. Is there a way I can track the miles traveled in private subdivisions and claim a deduction for those miles from my income taxes? I've googled this the question to no avail. I estimate that including weekend travel, I am traveling a minimum of 1500 miles per year on private roads and my car gets 24 miles per gallon. I don't know what all the fed/local gas taxes are but assuming 80 cents per gallon (best internet guestimate), I'm getting robbed of $50/year for gas taxes that supposedly go towards road maintenance, but don't get applied to the roads I drive on. $50 might not seem like a lot of money, but if you add up every resident getting screwed in this manner it is a substantial amount of money.
Thanks for any help you can provide. Generally I'm okay living out here where the state/county supplies no infrastructure (roads, water, sewage, etc) but I'm actually paying road infrastructure taxes where no service is provided. It seems that there should be some kind of remedy for this."
"Aloha Jen,
I understand that the gas tax goes up tomorrow. My question is regarding travel on non-public roads. Every day during my commute I travel 5 miles in a private subdivision where I pay road fees. Is there a way I can track the miles traveled in private subdivisions and claim a deduction for those miles from my income taxes? I've googled this the question to no avail. I estimate that including weekend travel, I am traveling a minimum of 1500 miles per year on private roads and my car gets 24 miles per gallon. I don't know what all the fed/local gas taxes are but assuming 80 cents per gallon (best internet guestimate), I'm getting robbed of $50/year for gas taxes that supposedly go towards road maintenance, but don't get applied to the roads I drive on. $50 might not seem like a lot of money, but if you add up every resident getting screwed in this manner it is a substantial amount of money.
Thanks for any help you can provide. Generally I'm okay living out here where the state/county supplies no infrastructure (roads, water, sewage, etc) but I'm actually paying road infrastructure taxes where no service is provided. It seems that there should be some kind of remedy for this."