[SheLion]

I posted the following earlier:

If the bankrupt internet company, Cigs4Cheap.com, was based in New York when it sold cigarettes to New Yorkers sales-tax free, it shouldn't be legal to charge the buyers.

I've read the seller is supposed to pay the sales and other taxes upfront before the sale and then collect the tax back from the buyer. That's what Amazon said too, when I e-mailed them with my question. The internet tax law, as it applies to them, is on their site.

I don’t understand the concept.  Smokers are using a product that if they didn’t use, the government would make NO money. The government raised the tax to a point where it was more attractive to buy elsewhere than pay the tax.  This is called free exchange of goods and services.  (Free enterprise).  There is no cheating here; this situation allows for no such thing as cheating.  If the price is too high, buy elsewhere.   

These people need to tell the state of New York to go to hell.  From what I understand, it is still illegal to tax internet sales unless the store has a physical location in your state.  When I make internet purchases of other goods there are no taxes unless there is a physical store in Kentucky.  

This is nothing but greed.

I posted the following earlier:

If the bankrupt internet company, Cigs4Cheap.com, was based in New York when it sold cigarettes to New Yorkers sales-tax free, it shouldn't be legal to charge the buyers.

I've read the seller is supposed to pay the sales and other taxes upfront before the sale and then collect the tax back from the buyer. That's what Amazon said too, when I e-mailed them with my question. The internet tax law, as it applies to them, is on their site.

I don’t understand the concept.  Smokers are using a product that if they didn’t use, the government would make NO money. The government raised the tax to a point where it was more attractive to buy elsewhere than pay the tax.  This is called free exchange of goods and services.  (Free enterprise).  There is no cheating here; this situation allows for no such thing as cheating.  If the price is too high, buy elsewhere.   

These people need to tell the state of New York to go to hell.  From what I understand, it is still illegal to tax internet sales unless the store has a physical location in your state.  When I make internet purchases of other goods there are no taxes unless there is a physical store in Kentucky.  

This is nothing but greed.

I don’t understand the concept.  Smokers are using a product that if they didn’t use, the government would make NO money. The government raised the tax to a point where it was more attractive to buy elsewhere than pay the tax.  This is called free exchange of goods and services.  (Free enterprise).  There is no cheating here; this situation allows for no such thing as cheating.  If the price is too high, buy elsewhere.   

These people need to tell the state of New York to go to hell.  From what I understand, it is still illegal to tax internet sales unless the store has a physical location in your state.  When I make internet purchases of other goods there are no taxes unless there is a physical store in Kentucky.  

This is nothing but greed.

[HoggerFox]

No, cigs4cheap.com was not based in New York at all, it was based in Virginia. From Andy's understanding (he's not positive), all Virginia based online cigarette retail sites were subpoenaed, he believes this because he ordered from another place called cig-outlet.com but not cigs4cheap.com to his knowledge. cig-outlet.com hasn't been mentioned in the news but they had to have subpoenaed them to get the customer list and that's how they got Andrew Hoffer's name. We think they went after all sites besides the American Indians since they are tax exempt and don't disclose information ever to anyone or agency, they don't have to either apparently. I'm almost positive everyone can order their cigarettes from the American Indian's via the internet and have no problem at all, the government can't touch them. When this is all over, I guess the American Indians will get all the customers who intentionally want cheaper prices on cigs, just my guess.