Projected Revenues

Revenue Sources

There are four main permanent revenue sources for the State Trunk Highway Fund:

• Federal Gas Tax and General Fund (Federal-Aid Highway Program)
• State Gas Tax (Motor Fuels Excise Taxes)
  
• Tab Fees (Motor Vehicle Registration Tax)
• Motor Vehicle Sales Tax
  

Highway System Expenditures

MnDOT manages the Trunk Highway Fund to support four broad types of expenditures on the state highway system:

• Debt Service, for payments to bondholders who have financed earlier investments
• Operations and Maintenance, combining traffic management, snow removal, pavement patching, etc.
• Program Planning and Delivery, including design and engineering work
• State Road Construction, representing the capital program for new construction and reconstruction of state highways and bridges

Balancing these goals leads to a projected 20-year total of about $20 billion devoted to capital projects. However, inflation for highway construction materials will continually reduce the buying power of this revenue.