This agreement is the first of its kind in the country. It furthers the successful efforts of New York and the other states that are part of the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, a public health agreement which, among other goals, aims to stop the flow of cheap cigarettes to young people. Through the states’ efforts, leading credit card companies have already agreed to cease allowing their cards to be used to facilitate these unlawful sales, and several major shippers have refused to deliver cigarettes purchased online. Cutting down on electronic funds transfers, such as those facilitated by CCFS, will make it more difficult for these retailers to continue selling.
Online tobacco retailers operate illegally in a number of ways, including: failing to file required monthly sales reports with the tax administrator of the states into which they are shipping cigarettes; using interstate wire and mail systems to defraud state governments of excise tax revenues; and shipping over 10,000 cigarettes per month without any state tax excise stamp. These same practices also violate New York State tax laws, which prohibit attempts to “evade or defeat a tax,” and New York State public health laws, which prohibit direct shipment of cigarettes to individual consumers in New York State, as well as similar laws of the states into which they sell.
Pinging SheLion...
GNAT-ZI’s:
“can’t live with smoking, but can’t live without the taxes”
I guess now the only payment accepted will be money orders?
Anyone else notice prices going up with these Indian reservations ? It sucks.
Be funny if the indians start an electronic funds-clearing operation on their own territory and open it up to all comers. Offshore banking services right at home!
Of course, it's for the chiiiiillllldrun.
I miss the part where it’s a conservative value to be a tax cheat?
btt
But of course it’s perfectly fine for all the illegals in NY to send “remittances” back to whatever hell-hole they’ve fled from.