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South Carolina is not getting millions of dollars in taxes because of a loophole in the state cigarette tax law. State lawmakers are moving to close that loophole.
After the state raised the cigarette tax by fifty cents a pack last year sales of little cigars have gone up.
They look like cigarettes but since they don’t [...]
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Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican and a former tobacco lobbyist long opposed to raising Mississippi’s cigarette tax, relented in the face of slumping budget revenues and signed the state’s first increase in nearly a quarter century. The state’s 18-cents-a-pack excise tax had not changed since 1985.
On Friday, it rises to 68 cents a pack. Mississippi [...]
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Governor David A. Paterson today signed a bill to curb the sale of untaxed cigarettes to Indian retailers in violation of the cigarette tax laws of New York State. The New York State Department of Taxation will have 60 days to issue a certification form and prepare to receive the certifications that will be submitted. [...]
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