For vehicles connected to the internet, the govt can just read the accumulated mileage. For old school iron, you’ll have to visit an inspection station every year to get tabulated. Like the TSA it will provide thousands of unionized federal jobs.
Sounds like the new tax will be instituted to pay for the methods of collection of the tax. Think of all the new productive jobs that it creates!
I bet they mandate a GPS device be installed in every car and weekly payments. People would revolt if there was an annual payment.