Kentucky's excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.030
Kentucky's excise tax collection for the
fiscal year ending June 2002: $17,145,000
Sales tax on tobacco products: 6.00%
Federal excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.39
Total federal excise tax collections in fiscal year 2002: $7,512,700,000
Click here for the Cigarette Tax and Payment Table for all states.
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Tobacco Taxes
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Comparing Excise Taxes on Cigarettes, Beer and Wine
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Number of six-packs of beer that must be sold in Kentucky to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 6.7 |
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Number of bottles of wine that must be sold in Kentucky to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 3 |
Kentucky Smokers' Contributions
to the State Economy - 2003
Kentucky smokers comprise only 32.6%1 of the adult population in the state. Here is what they already pay because they choose to buy a legal product:
| Smokers Pay Excise Taxes2 | $ | 21,436,000 |
| Smokers Pay Sales Taxes2 | $ | 114,324,000 |
| Smokers Pay Tobacco Settlement Payments3 | $ | 258,879,000 |
| $ | 394,639,000 |
Smokers' Economic/Tax Profile 2002
- Income1
| Kentucky smokers' median income | $ | 28,000 |
| Kentucky nonsmokers' median income | $ | $39,752 |
- Working families pay more1
- 46% of Kentucky smokers had household incomes LESS THAN $25,000
- 7% of Kentucky smokers had household incomes EQUAL TO or GREATER THAN $75,000
- Smoker excise tax/sales tax/tobacco settlement payments liability in 20024
| Total average paid per Kentucky smoker in excise and sales taxes | $ | 137 |
| Cost per Kentucky smoker for settlement payments to Kentucky | $ | 260 |
| Total annual payments to Kentucky per smoker | $ | 397 |
| Total annual payments to Kentucky per nonsmoker | $ | 0 |
Kentucky Smoker Facts5
- Total FY2003 smokers' payments to Kentucky were:
- More than five times as large as state excise taxes on alcoholic beverages in 2003 ($75.7 million).
- Almost three times as large as FY2003 coal severance tax revenues ($141.7 million).
- Larger than FY2003 corporate income taxes ($278.1 million).
- Larger than FY2003 motor vehicles usage tax revenues ($389 million).
- More than twice as large as FY2003 Kentucky lottery revenues ($171 million).
- The total amount paid by smokers in Kentucky would have covered FY2003 expenditures for:
- Parks ($76.4 million) -AND- Pupil Transportation ($202.2 million) -AND- Workplace Standards ($96.3 million)
-OR- - Environmental Protection ($57.3 million) -AND- Public Health ($235.2 million) -AND- Children with Special Health Care Needs ($54.3 million)
-OR- - Mental Health/Mental Retardation ($378.7 million)
-OR- - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System ($383.6 million)
- Parks ($76.4 million) -AND- Pupil Transportation ($202.2 million) -AND- Workplace Standards ($96.3 million)
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CIGARETTES DON'T PAY TAXES -
KENTUCKY SMOKERS DO!!
KENTUCKY SMOKERS DO!!
- 1Centers for Disease Control's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2002
2Orzechowski & Walker, Arlington, Virginia; from state revenue department.
3PriceWaterhouseCooper
4U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 state population and Centers for Disease Control's Behavioral Risk Surveillance System, 2002
5Tax comparisons are from Kentucky Office of the State Budget Director, Fourth Quarter, 2003 Quarterly Economic and Revenue Report, online at http://www.osbd.state.ky.us/publications/4thQTR-FY03.pdf. Budget comparisons are from the Kentucky Office of the State Budget Director, 2004-2006 Budget of the Commonwealth: Historical Data, online at http://www.osbd.state.ky.us/publications.htm.