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  • N.Y. asks online cigarette buyers to cough up tax

    01/14/2005 9:09:13 PM PST · by Zon · 206 replies · 3,847+ views
    News.com ^ | 1/14/2004 | Reuters
    N.Y. asks online cigarette buyers to cough up taxNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that smokers who bought cigarettes over the Internet had better be prepared to cough up taxes they tried to avoid by going online. "The law says you got to pay your taxes. The handful of people who don't are just stealing from the rest of us," Bloomberg said in a weekly radio address. The city's finance department this week sent letters to 3,700 smokers asking them to fork over $1.3 million in city taxes from Internet tobacco purchases. The annual loss to the city from...