Sentences with phrase «new cigarette taxes»

Last week's failure of a massive tobacco - settlement bill in the Senate added new urgency to efforts by the Clinton administration and education lobbyists to find money to pay for class - size reductions and other programs with funding contingent on new cigarette taxes.

What will help during this economic crisis, she says, is Ohio's new cigarette tax, with 30 percent of revenue earmarked for the arts.

This move comes about one week after the city's new cigarette tax went into effect, adding $ 2 to the cost per pack.

Not exact matches

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

A Native American tribe is calling on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to either apologize or resign after he said on a radio show that Gov. David Paterson — who's trying to rustle up millions in cigarette taxes from the tribes — should grab «a cowboy hat and a shotgun» and demand the money.

Cigarette taxes New York has the fourth - highest state taxes on cigarettes, but could become No. 1 soon.

Rhode Island $ 3.46 Connecticut $ 3.00 * Hawaii $ 2.80 New York $ 2.75 New Jersey $ 2.70 Georgia $ 0.37 Louisiana $ 0.36 Virginia $ 0.30 Missouri $ 0.17 S. Carolina $ 0.07 * effective July 1, 2010 Source: The Tax Foundation «As far as we can tell, it's not a done deal, but the governor and Assembly leadership appear to be committed to (raising the cigarette tax),» said James Calvin, president of the state Association of Convenience StorTax Foundation «As far as we can tell, it's not a done deal, but the governor and Assembly leadership appear to be committed to (raising the cigarette tax),» said James Calvin, president of the state Association of Convenience Stortax),» said James Calvin, president of the state Association of Convenience Stores.

He made legislators chop the health care budget and enact a new tax on cigarettes.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and New York City Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter are seeking $ 180 million from Atlanta - based UPS, saying the cheap cigarettes increased smoking by New Yorkers while also costing $ 29.7 million in lost tax revenue.

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

The number of state - taxed cigarette packs sold in New York has plummeted by 54 percent in the past decade.

A federal judge ruled Friday that United Parcel Service Inc. illegally shipped millions of cigarettes to New York state from Indian reservations, opening up the parcel carrier to damages and other penalties for skirting taxes on tobacco products.

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.

State Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Westchester) announced new legislation to enact a tax on vapor products used in an electronic cigarette or other similar device.

The New York tax department has joined forces with two other state agencies in an effort to reduce sales of contraband cigarettes.

so now they fire the cigarette tax revenue man; hire a $ 125,000 month OTB head and veto the needs of New Yorkers during tough economic times and all because he was «insulted» that Ravitch didn't kiss up to him... IMPEACH PATERSON.

The plan has earned the support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose administration has implemented a host of new health - conscious regulations including a cigarette tax and a ban on trans - fat.

The Seneca's western New York home includes numerous tax - free cigarette shops and Internet - based retailers.

Casino gaming revenues and taxes on cigarettes have been mounting issues in recent years for Native Americans in the Western New York region.

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.

After a federal magistrate judge dismissed a similar lawsuit in 1999, finding the state was immune from the legal action, the western New York tribe in 2007 sent a $ 2 million bill for back tolls during a dispute with the state over cigarette taxes.

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.

New York State has become the national poster child for cigarette tax evasion and bootlegging.

New York's state cigarette tax is currently $ 2.75 a pack.

In an interview Wednesday on WWRL - AM in New York City, Paterson repeated the session is necessary to close a $ 315 million mid-year budget deficit caused by larger - than - expected Medicaid rolls and the failure to collect taxes on cigarettes sold on Indian reservations.

In 2006, The Department of Health estimated that New York State was losing as much as $ 550 million in taxes through the illegal sales of untaxed cigarettes.

A version of this article appears in print on June 19, 2010, on Page A14 of the New York edition with the headline: State Leaders Agree on Proposal to Raise Cigarette Tax by $ 1.60 a Pack.

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.

«New policies — including things like higher cigarette taxes and stricter anti-bullying policies — certainly have a positive effect.

Alongside standardized packaging, a series of new regulations and taxes also mean smokers are paying more for a pack of cigarettes than ever before.

For example, Missouri has the lowest cigarette excise tax in the country and weak statewide clean indoor air laws, and we have 50 percent more smokers than New York, which has the highest cigarette tax and strong clean indoor air laws.»

In New York City, stamping agents pay cigarette taxes to the government in advance; they purchase and affix tax stamps to packs for wholesalers, who in turn sell the stamped packs to the more than 9,700 licensed retailers.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Higher taxes and prices for cigarettes are strongly associated with lower infant mortality rates in the United States, according to a new study from Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan released Dec. 1 in the journal Pediatrics.

July 25, 2017 • A new study shows a connection between cigarette taxes and food stamps.

My personal preferences would be for states to impose a new consumption tax on something that's bad for the world, like gambling or carbon emissions or sugar or cigarettes, but states could also impose a special tax on millionaires or rent out some state asset (like highways or parking lots).

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It was as if it announced a new tax on cigarettes but exempted all smokers from paying it.