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UT Lawmakers Fix Fuel Tax Formula

Utah lawmakers have passed a measure that aims to fix the state's fuel tax after two earlier attempts to tweak the complicated formula left some counties receiving less money than expected.

The measure passed in a special session late Wednesday afternoon is supposed to even out the way money is distributed between rural and urban areas.

Lawmakers in 2015 passed an overhaul of the state's fuel tax that raised the tax, changed the way it's calculated and give cities and counties a 17.5 percent increase in road money.

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Some counties ended up receiving far less money, and legislators passed changes earlier this year that were supposed to fix the problem.

Legislators later realized their fix steered too much money away from urban cities in favor of rural areas, so they spent this summer trying again.