Group: Virginia car, gas fees among lowest in U.S.

Virginia‘s gasoline, retail and auto sales taxes rank among the lowest in the country, a Northern Virginia transportation group said in a report Wednesday that advocates greater funding for roads and transit.

The findings come as legislators are bitterly divided over how to replace lost revenue from last year’s transportation package that would have funded much-needed projects in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads – much of which was struck down by the state Supreme Court as unconstitutional – and how to close a yawning deficit in highway maintenance.