Posted on 07/03/2017 10:41:23 AM PDT by Drango
As free people, we can freely march into voting booths, and freely vote to reduce, regulate, restrict or tax tobacco.
Californians, Just send all your money to the government. You’re screwed.
Many cigar smokers have long since abandoned the brick and mortar stores and bought smokes on-line.
These state taxes have contributed to the creation of on-line mega-stores like Cigars International, Holts, Cigar.com, Cigarpage, Cigarplace, Famous, Bestcigarprices and others.
They thank California for the new business.
Interesting fact—most of these mega-stores are located in PA—because PA has no taxes on cigar sales.
The problem is they can take ALL the money and it still will not be enough...
They need the money to pay for the illegals, the muzzies, the crime, the sex-”change” operations, and all the other things they do that they shouldn’t do with our money.
Some welcome their totalitarian overlords. I for one do not.
“Interesting factmost of these mega-stores are located in PAbecause PA has no taxes on cigar sales.”
I did not know that, I buy from Famous smoke shop. But Holts and Cigar.com are located very close to each other in Bethleham,Easton and N. Philly.
Exactly. Once the profit margin becomes high enough you will see serious smuggling operations pop up. And net tax revenue will go down.
because PA has no taxes on cigar sales......OH, BS. A pack of Captain Black cigars is just south of $7.00. Rendell socked a bigger tax on cigars than the cigarettes about 13 years ago. $6.85 a pack including the 6% sales tax after buying.
Just wait till their respective states start to obtain the sales records of these online sellers then go after the buyers for the unpaid taxes to the state.......
That's what a lot of states did to the out of state cigarette buyers......My state of Michigan included.
I don’t smoke but voted against the onerous increase of tobacco taxes out of concern for the cigarette-addicted 25% of the population, largely lower-income people, who will still buy cigarettes with the higheer tax.
When all is said and done, that $9.50 cigar will cost $16.82 with the new tax and sales tax, a total increase of $3.85.An increase of $3.85??? Was that calculation done with common core math?
By the math that I learned in the last century, a $9.50 cigar being sold for $16.82 results in a $7.32 increase rather than a $3.85 increase.
Does Captain Black count as "cigars"?
I buy cigars from outside the country and don’t pay any US taxes on them.
That is what they are advertised as. Should they be Cuban? If so you can’t get them here.
From:Philly.com (July 19, 2016)
Cigars will remain tax-free because they are the mainstay of a thriving industry in Pennsylvania. Legislators say they want to keep it that way
. Florida and Pennsylvania are the only states that do not tax cigars of either the premium or the gas-station variety.
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