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Tobacco Taxes
Rhode Island's excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $1.710
Rhode Island's excise tax collection for the fiscal year ending June 2002: $79,064,000 Sales tax on tobacco products: 7.00% Federal excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.39 Total federal excise tax collections in fiscal year 2002: $7,512,700,000 Click here for the Cigarette Tax and Payment Table for all states.
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Number of six-packs of beer that must be sold in Rhode Island to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 241.9 |
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Number of bottles of wine that must be sold in Rhode Island to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 111 |
Smokers Pay Excise Taxes2 | $ | 94,002,000 |
Smokers Pay Sales Taxes2 | $ | 22,076,000 |
Smokers Pay Tobacco Settlement Payments3 | $ | 52,439,000 |
$ | 168,517,000 |
Rhode Island smokers' median household income | $ | 37,343 |
Rhode Island nonsmokers' median household income | $ | 47,121 |
32% of Rhode Island smokers had household income LESS THAN $25,000
16% of Rhode Island smokers had household income EQUAL TO or GREATER THAN $75,000
The impact of smoker payments on the incomes of working families was more than THREE TIMES the impact on higher income smokers. Those who can afford it least pay a disproportionate percentage of their hard-earned income in smoker payments.
Total average paid per Rhode Island smoker in excise and sales taxes | $ | 644 |
Cost per Rhode Island smoker for settlement payments to RI | $ | 291 |
Total annual payments to Rhode Island per smoker | $ | 935 |
Total annual payments to Rhode Island per nonsmoker | $ | 0 |
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