By Carl DeMaio, Reform California – April 2, 2025
| California’s greedy politicians have already imposed the highest GAS TAX and CAR TAX in the nation on drivers, and now they want to impose a new MILEAGE TAX to charge us PER MILE we drive to get more of our money!” warns CA State Rep. Carl DeMaio and Chairman of Reform California. |
| The California Mileage Tax (AB 1421) would require tracking every driver’s mileage and charging them 6-9 cents per mile they drive. That is the equivalent of an 80-cent-per-gallon hike in the gas tax! |
| The typical California driver will be forced to pay $900-1200 a year in higher taxes just to drive on poorly maintained freeways they already paid for with the original gas and sales taxes! When you add the new MILEAGE TAX to the existing GAS TAX and CAR TAX, the typical two-car family will end up paying more than $3000 in taxes a year for just the privilege of driving in California – not including the cost of the car itself! |
The CA Mileage Tax also involves an invasion of our privacy – as it would include a tracking requirement that is still being determined by government bureaucrats. Proposed tracking methods include using transponders installed on every car to use of tracking Apps to be installed on cell phones of every driver to simply requiring individuals get their odometer readings inspected annually.
| Carl DeMaio and Reform California are leading the fight to BLOCK the California Mileage Tax (AB 1421). Our first battle in blocking the tax statewide is to defeat AB 1421) in the state legislature by mobilizing public outcry and opposition to the proposal. Reform California plans to make the CA Mileage Tax a key issue in every close race for local and state office in the upcoming election!Second, Reform California is working with a coalition of taxpayer advocates on a ballot measure to block the imposition of any Mileage Tax without voter approval. |
