Legislative Republicans are planning a petition drive to stop a scheduled increase in the gasoline tax.
Leaders of the General Assembly's minority party are scheduled to kick off the drive with a news conference on Monday at a Hartford gas station.
Later, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Republican lawmakers will collect signatures at gas stations in nine communities.
The state's petroleum gross receipts tax -- a percentage of the wholesale price of gasoline and charged to companies distributing petroleum products -- is scheduled to increase 16 percent on July 1. That tax is in addition to the regular 25-cent-per-gallon gas tax and the 18.4 cents-per-gallon in federal gas taxes.
Majority Democrats have said the estimated $60 million collected by the increase was needed to help balance the state budget.
Connecticut GOP Lawmakers Trying to Stop Gas Tax Hike
The gas tax is scheduled to increase 16 percent on July 1.
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