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South Carolina residents can get fuel tax credit in 2019

By Liz Foster
By Liz Foster

FORT MILL, S.C. — Some South Carolina residents will start saving their gas receipts starting New Year’s Day, because they can get a tax credit if they do.

Mandy Torres has been saving her gas receipts in an envelope she keeps in her car during 2018 because she knows beginning in 2019, she can submit those receipts from gas purchases or car maintenance to the state at tax time for a tax credit.

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“I have to buy gas anyway. If I can get a couple dollars back, it’s worth it,” Torres said.

But some drivers, including Deondra Thompson, had no idea about the new tax credit until Eyewitness News anchor Liz Foster told her.

“That will be nice because I travel from South Carolina to North Carolina every day,” Thompson told Channel 9.

The tax credit is South Carolina lawmakers’ way of easing the pain of a gas tax increase that was approved in 2017. The gas tax will go up 12 cents a gallon but is being phased in by going up 2 cents a gallon every year through 2022.

“I wish they wouldn’t have raised (the gas tax) all,” said Theodore Moore.

Revenue from the increased gas tax will bring in millions of dollars to fix deteriorating roads and bridges.

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“The roads are really messed up in South Carolina,” Thompson said.

South Carolina residents can get a tax credit for what they paid in higher gas taxes or for car maintenance up to two vehicles, but they only can claim the lower amount.

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