Posted on 07/04/2012 7:43:52 PM PDT by Graybeard58
For smokers who bargained on roll-your-own cigarette stores for cheap smokes, it looks like those days are numbered.
On Friday, President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law a federal highway bill with a section that redefines tobacco manufacturers to include any business with a roll-your-own cigarette machine and taxes those products at the same rate as packaged smokes.
The move comes a month after Illinois increased taxes on such roll-your-own machine-made cigarettes.
Marcia Smith, 47, of Lake County, decided after the state tax increase that she should move her Smokes & Such tobacco shops in Skokie and Gurnee to Wisconsin, where taxes on rolled cigarettes are lower.
If Obama signs the law, she said she’ll shut her doors.
The machines, which cost about $33,000 each, allow customers to pick their own tobacco and pour it into a device that can roll the tobacco into a carton, or about 200 cigarettes, within minutes.
You’re a bummer.
I have never understood how you can stand by this unjust taxation.
They started tobbcoco tax to cover smokers health costs, now its Childrens Health Costs.
Enjoy obammycare. You love this ****
Under law you still have to pay the tax even if you grow it yourself and only use it yourself.
Same goes for Bio Fuel
If you tobacco and have it shipped to avoid taxes, DO NOT SHIP UPS!!! Kalifornia, and probably some other states, have extorted UPS to have them report shipments from tobacco sellers to any address in the state. The state will then send you a tax bill for the products you bought.
I had a friend buying cigars from out of state, and he got a bill from the Franchise Tax Board for several thousand dollars. UPS ratted him out.
BTW Drango, I had a Cheeseburger today, then I had ciggy and a beer while I watched the Independance day fireworks.
Is that a problem for you?
Gosh I hope the fireworks didn’t get your knickers in a twist.
And I hope no animals were startled by the kabooms.
I am sick of your love for unjust taxation
You are the WORST of what we have to offer.
You are happy to apply the yoke of taxation on your fellow man so long as you don’t get taxed.
Pissssst... They make 53 foot van trailers too ;)
We could pass a law to Tax Frilly Panties but what good could come of it? How could it be justified in reasonable folks minds?
It would just be an unfair Tax.
I don't :(
Sheeeit. Me and my brothers and sisters used to roll up cigs for my dad using the old Laredo !
Wowie
“This company will still mail you cigs. How do they get away with it?”
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Not sure. As I understand it, they use private or small shippers. FedEx and UPS voluntarily don’t ship cigarets and the post office is prohibited by law.
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/police-courts/courts/article564015.ece
Look what happened to this man.....
William Blakemore is a pack-a-day smoker in Hightstown, N.J., who started buying cigarettes online several years ago. His goal: avoid his state's cigarette tax, which has tripled since 2002 to $2.40 a pack, the nation's second highest.
But the bill suddenly came due last week when Blakemore opened his mail and found a claim from New Jersey for $1,842.79 in back taxes from his Internet purchases.
Blakemore, 55, an unemployed computer programmer, has been buying Benson & Hedges online for $29 a carton, compared with the $50-$60 he would have paid at a convenience store or supermarket. The tax notice, he says, "kind of raised the adrenaline level. That got my dander up."
Blakemore is one of thousands of smokers getting letters from state and local tax collectors demanding they pay up for their Internet purchases.
The governments want the taxes to support budgets that are stretched thin and to level the playing field for conventional retailers, who must collect taxes on every pack sold.
Smokers increasingly are turning to the Internet because state and local taxes in some areas account for more than half the cost of cigarettes.
People who evade cigarette taxes by buying online are part of a broader pattern in Internet commerce...........
This was EIGHT years ago. Imagine what it is now.
Oh it all seems reasonable /s
Smokers really suck. /s
Don’t they though? *grin* :)
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