{"id":608,"date":"2013-07-07T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/form2290\/taxform2290\/post\/2013\/07\/07\/How-the-Revenue-from-Tax-Form-2290-Helps-in-Maintaining-the-US-State-Highways.aspx"},"modified":"2020-07-14T10:33:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T10:33:17","slug":"how-irs-form-2290-helps-to-maintain-the-us-state-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/blog\/how-irs-form-2290-helps-to-maintain-the-us-state-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"How the IRS Form 2290 Helps to Maintain the US State Highways?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US highway system is one of the most extensive and most complex in the world. Suffice to say it requires extensive maintenance and looking after. It is also no secret that the number of vehicles on the road is increasing at an exponential rate, which causes extensive deterioration of the decade-old highways and bridges. In fact, according to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in 1955, the American highways carried round about 65 million vehicles, whereas today, that number has almost quadrupled to 246 million. Amid such an exponential build-up of pressure, the roads need to kept maintained and taxes such as the Heavy Vehicle Use Tax Form<\/a> play a pivotal role in helping the federal government do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Current State of the US Highways<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

According to TRIP<\/a>, which is a national non-profit research group, the US highway system is in dire need of repair and various projects are falling behind, here are some of them:<\/span><\/p>\n