Sentences with phrase «nation cigarette taxes»

He says the state's nearly top in the nation cigarette taxes bring in around $ 3 billion dollars a year, so there is resources to fully fund the anti-smoking programs.

He says the state's nearly top in the nation cigarette taxes bring in around $ 3 billion dollars a year, so there is resources to fully fund the anti smoking programs.

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If the latest cigarette tax hike is approved, New Yorkers will pay close to $ 7 per pack — the highest in the nation.

On top of that, the Seneca Nation filed a complaint over the cigarette tax in federal court and claimed it was giving the state government until Thursday to respond to their demand to postpone its enforcement.

Score a victory for the Cayuga Indian Nation in their ongoing, and seemingly never ending fight over whether they have to pay taxes on cigarette sales.

And just weeks later, Governor Paterson signed a law instructing all Indian Nations to collect taxes on cigarette sales to non-Indians.

At the time, law enforcement claimed that they were breaking the law by selling cigarette's tax free to non-Indian customers, because the US Supreme Court ruled that Indian Nations couldn't claim sovereignty over land they purchased.

u An $ 1.60 increase in the state cigarette tax, raising the total to a prohibitive $ 3.40 per pack — highest in the nation.

Instead, more smokers are buying cigarettes in ways that avoid New York's $ 4.35 per pack tax, the highest in the nation.

They talked about a number of issues facing the territory, including the economic impact his people have on the state, the future of gaming in New York, and the ongoing dispute between the nation and state government over the collection of cigarette taxes.

Legislative leaders weren't the only people anxious over the executive branch's budget actions: Members of the Seneca Nation came to the Capitol after getting word that the governor wanted to start taxing the sales of cigarettes in Indian lands.

• On collecting cigarette sales tax from Indian nations: Reports recently surfaced claiming Paterson planned to abandon efforts to collect sales tax on cigarettes sold on Native American reservations.

BUFFALO — New York state is under another court order preventing it from taxing cigarettes sold by Seneca Indian Nation retailers to the general public at reservation stores.

In New York City, which levies steep taxes of its own on tobacco products, a pack of cigarettes would come with a tax of $ 5.85, making it the nation's first city to break $ 5, antismoking advocates said.

Cigarette taxes in New York would jump by $ 1.60 a pack under a tentative deal reached between Gov. David A. Paterson and legislative leaders, which would give New York the nation's highest state cigaretCigarette taxes in New York would jump by $ 1.60 a pack under a tentative deal reached between Gov. David A. Paterson and legislative leaders, which would give New York the nation's highest state cigarettecigarette taxes.