The state Supreme Court has ruled that it will hear appeals on two ballot questions on Allegheny County's 10 percent drink tax that were rejected by two lower courts.

The anti-drink tax group Friends Against Counterproductive Taxation says its referendum question would reduce the drink tax to 0.5 percent. County Council had proposed its own referendum question, asking whether voters want to replace the drink tax with higher property taxes.

The tax was implemented in January along with a $2-a-day tax on car rentals to fund the county's $30 million subsidy of mass transit.