Ping.
"We were ignorant of the law."
Were you also igorant of the fact that ignorance of the law is no excuse? C'mon. Quit it.
One word.
LIBERALS.
Read just how much smokers in New Jersey are already paying toward the state economy with their cigarette taxes!
Tobacco Taxes and Payments for New Jersey
| New Jersey's excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $2.400 New Jersey's excise tax collection for the fiscal year ending June 2005: $780,657,000 |
|
| Sales tax on tobacco products: 6.00% Tobacco products sales tax collection for the fiscal year ending June 2005: $119,337,000 Local tax on tobacco products: $0 |
|
| Federal excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.39 Total federal excise tax collections in fiscal year 2005: $7,778,569,117 |
|
| Click here for the Cigarette Tax and Payment Table for all states. |
|
|
Master Settlement Agreement Payments Received $1,580,657,852 has been paid to New Jersey through Fiscal Year 2005 since the Master Settlement Agreement was signed on November 23, 1998. *Payment amounts based on figures from "The Tax Burden on Tobacco" Volume 40, 2005 by the economic consulting firm of Orzechowski and Walker. |
|
|
|
| Alabama | Alaska | Arkansas | Arizona | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming | |