Sentences with phrase «pay cigarette taxes»

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.

Not exact matches

«If we substitute a tax on marijuana cigarettes equal to the difference between the local production cost and the street price people currently pay — that is, transfer the revenue from the current producers and marketers (many of whom work with organized crime) to the government, leaving all other marketing and transportation issues aside we would have revenue of (say) $ 7 per [unit].

Residents must also pay gas taxes and «sin» taxes on alcohol and cigarettes.

get real yourself IM, we are so overtaxed and underserved and another tax on cigarettes won't do anything but make poor saps who are addicted to the most addictive drug of all time pay more and feel more miserable, or they will buy bootleg cigarettes.

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

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.

The Governor also talks about the proposed increase in the cigarette tax as an indirect way to plug the budget to help pay for road funding, early childhood education funding, as well as whether the Superintendent of Public Instruction will become an appointed position.

We can no longer allow Native American retailers to avoid paying taxes on cigarette sales to non-Native Americans, while supplying extensive cigarette bootlegging operations.

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

«Not only that, I wasn't happy about paying taxes that go towards people who are sitting at home all day and making no contribution to society — especially overweight people who spend all their benefits on junk food and cigarettes.

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.

The board will have the authority to sell bonds to pay for the renovations and will collect revenue raised by local hotel / motel, liquor and cigarette taxes.

With a population more willing to pay taxes an increase in tax on cigarettes would be great (less smokers, more tax revenues).

The government taxes alcohol and cigarettes like crazy in order to pay for the hospital bills that it causes.

In Chicago, smokers now pay $ 3.66 per pack in state and local cigarette taxes.

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

Someone who smokes a pack a day would therefore pay more than $ 550 in cigarette taxes annually in South Dakota.