Cigarette tax hike pushes sales down, but drives revenue up

STLtoday ^ | 8/8/02 | Paul Hampel

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Fewer cigarettes were sold last month in Illinois, but the first month of higher cigarette excise taxes generated $12 million more in state revenue than July 2001, the Illinois Department of Revenue reported.

Meanwhile, the department says it has referred to the Illinois attorney general's office five cases of Chicago-area retailers attempting to avoid the tax.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

1-Fewer sales yet higher revenues.
2-New taxes to decrease state budget.
3-Poor welfare and lower income smokers.
4-How much of the taxes are spent enforcing bootleggers?
5-What portion of previous taxes can be concentrated on health care?

[yoe]

http://www.cigarettes-and-tobacco-online.net/

http://www.loneoak.net/

http://www.tobaccoxpress.com/

http://www.cheap-cigarettes.co.za/discount_cigarettes.php

http://www.nativeblend.net/

http://www.discount-cigarettes.org/pasadena.html

http://www.thetobaccoshop.com/RYOMachIndex.htm...for starters.

Don't buy any more than you have to from the regular places. Stop giving government state and federal these confiscatory and unfair taxes.

[OBAFGKM]

Cigarette tax hike pushes sales down, but drives revenue up

Well, Duh! -- Adam Smith

[newgeezer]

the first month of higher cigarette excise taxes generated $12 million more in state revenue than July 2001, the Illinois Department of Revenue reported. ... The new 40-cent tax pushed the price on a pack of premium cigarettes in Illinois to about $5, about $1.50 more per pack than in Missouri.

So, the state of Illinois should have no problem funding the long-overdue, increased-capacity bridge between East St. Louis, IL and St. Louis, MO.

[Mr. Bird]

A law enacted in January limited to 10 the number of packs that could be bought outside the state. Under the old law, smokers were allowed to possess up to 100 packs, or 10 cartons, lacking Illinois excise tax stamps

Someone needs to challenge this law, pronto. It is clearly a restriction on interstate commerce, which is a federal matter.

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Cigarette tax

[Kermit]

Great minds think alike, I was just about to put together a list of internet tobacco outlets. My service will simply be to put your list in clickable format:

Cigarettes and Tobacco Online

Lone Oak

Tobacco Express

Discount Cigarettes

Native Blend

Discount Cigs Pasadena

Of course, what they are doing is creating a whole new branch of organized crime with smuggling. They will criminalize Mom and Pop stores, who survive on cigarette sales. The tobaccofascists are attacking the little guys once again.

[SheLion]

Or Roll Your Own!!

[SheLion]

Thanks for the ping, Tumbleweed!!

[yoe]

Thanks my friend!
yoe