Why does this story make me think of FISA courts?
Wonder if the Cigar companies are on the hit list?
I could be getting a bill.
Ohio is the 2nd highest taxed state in the U.S. I lived there for the last 24 years; my husband and I filed taxes regularly on a quarterly basis - with an accountant helping us - a really GOOD accountant. However, the state recently claimed we owed an additional $1700 in state income tax for the year of 2004. I paid it online as soon as I got my notice. HOWEVER - because of their rolling billing cycle, they added on an additional penalty and interest fee that wasn’t available online. The fees and penalties snowballed without our knowledge. Yesterday, we got a call from the State Attorney General’s office - mind you, we moved to Arizona last July - they were calling to collect an additional $650. I called them back to be sure that’s who it was but I told them when I paid the money I better get some sort of letter confirming the account was paid in full and closed or I would go to the press. Maybe I’ll go to the press anyway. Ohio is a really jerky state. Incredibly high taxes with nothing to show for it. We even had to pay for trash pickup.
Let this be a lesson to those who think that the “solution” to the drug war is to “legalize it” AND “tax the hell out of it”. It just moves the DEA under the ATF.
i go to kentucky to purchase my cigarettes. much cheaper there.
“The combined tab? More than $2.15 million”
I wonder how much it’s going to cost my state, in total, to collect this money????
I wonder what happens if you don't pay? Can't repo the smokes.
Yes, they should be disappointed. In the people they elected to office.
Thus, they lose their tax exemption by way of a 'legal'? back door.
There's too much destruction of law by writing a law that doesn't supercede a protectionist law, but makes it toothless.
The lure of cheap tobacco often sends consumers to the Web. Up to 78 percent of Internet merchants advertise "tax-free" cigarettes to appeal to customers living in states with high excise taxes, according to the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program.
'The lure of cheap tobacco..', yes and no. Online I, oops, 'you', can get Old Gold Straights and other 'obsolete' or obscure brands not sold in local stores. Are they cheaper, yeah maybe, whoopee. As to this: "Substance Abuse Policy...". Go take a flying flock.
Another thing - when entering IL they have signs along the highway saying no more than three cartons may be brought in for personal use. BUT - if you buy those same three cartons online now the state wants a 'use tax'. They can Bite Me.
Y’know...if you look at “structuring” laws, which say it is illegal to deposit less than $10,000 to avoid being listed as depositing OVER $10,000, I bet some goofy liberal lawyer can come up with the same concept towards avoiding cigarette taxes.
Simply charge NON-smokers the same cigarette tax that smokers pay, on the basis that because they refuse to smoke, they are deliberately avoiding paying the taxes that smokers are paying, and thus structuring their non-smoking habit so as to avoid paying their fair share of society’s ills!
Ed
FMCDH(BITS)
They should have learned from Prohibition but nooooooo!
so at least the state recognizes the importance of a border in collecting cig taxes, lol
but seriously if cigarettes are so bad how come the governmnet makes more from a pack of smokes that the cig companies do?
Tar, feathers, rails, free transportation to the city dump.