California’s Tax Man Eyes a New Tool: A GPS Tracker on Your Car

Date: Jul 25 2012

Filed under: Taxes, Autos, Money and Politics

GPS tax information
Here’s a news item that’s guaranteed to inflame both the privacy activists and “taxophobes” alike: In California, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission has just approved a new study aimed at raising funds for road maintenance and public transit.

Sound innocuous? It’s not. When a government agency talks about “raising money,” that’s almost always code for “raising taxes” — and the new “Vehicle Miles Traveled” program is no exception.

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