Sentences with phrase «milligram tax»

OPIOID TAX: Cuomo's call for a 2 - cent - per - milligram tax on opioid manufacturers is running into opposition among Republican lawmakers.

Cuomo had initially proposed $ 1 billion in new taxes and fees including a 2 - cent per - per - milligram tax on opioid manufacturers.

Tedisco said the proposed 2 cents per milligram tax on prescription opioids might be included, but will technically no longer be called a «tax.»

-- Opioid epidemic surcharge ($ 127 million): With New York among the states hit hardest by the heroin and painkiller addiction epidemic, Cuomo is looking to place a 2 - cents - per - milligram tax on opioids sold in the state, to be paid by drug manufacturers.

Those include a tax on vapor products, a 2 - cent per milligram tax on opioid prescriptions framed as a way to combat the heroine addiction epidemic, and a «windfall profit fee» on health insurance companies.

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To raise revenues, Cuomo proposed requiring extending sales tax collections on online sales, imposing a surcharge on certain health insurers who received a windfall from federal tax cuts, tapping hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from lawsuit settlements and raising taxes «e-cigarettes» and taxing opioids (2 cents per milligram prescribed to go to anti-addiction programs).

One tax would be a 2 - cents per milligram of active opioid ingredient in prescription drugs.

Lawmakers and advocates say the tax — which charges drug companies 2 cents per milligram of opioid - based medications at the first point of sale — will likely be absorbed by consumers in the form of higher insurance premiums and co-pays.

The 2 cent tax per milligram of active opioid ingredient on pills would be levied on drug manufacturers.

Cuomo's tax proposal, released as part of his 2018 - 19 budget in January, called for a two cents per milligram surcharge to be collected from manufacturers or distributors in New York.