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.
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.
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.
«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.
With a population more willing to
pay taxes an increase in
tax on cigarettes would be great (less smokers, more
tax revenues).
It was as if it announced a new
tax on cigarettes but exempted all smokers from
paying it.