Posted on 02/04/2006 3:38:24 AM PST by SheLion
Price-conscious smokers who thought they landed fantastic bargains on the Internet have been hit by the city with bills totaling nearly $1.4 million, officials said yesterday.
A crackdown on tax-free cigarette sales on the Web hauled in $695,479 from 2,156 puffers out of the $1,354,880 demanded in the first round of bills sent out to 3,780 New York City residents through May.
A second round in August took in another $169,990 out of $507,000 due.
Now, officials say, they're ready to get really serious and impose a $100-a-carton penalty - plus the $1.50-a-pack tax.
"We want voluntary compliance," said Finance Department spokesman Sam Miller. "Now that we've sent out three notices, it's not so voluntary anymore."
Is it any WONDER that NYC smokers go ELSEWHERE???!!!
Cigarettes Up to $7 a Pack With New Tax
New York - 1 July 2002
RINO Mayor Bloomberg said: "If it were totally up to me, I would raise the cigarette tax so high the revenues from it would go to zero," said the mayor, who has said he hopes that the higher taxes will persuade smokers to quit and will prevent children from becoming smokers.
Old Mikey can't STAND the loss of revenue since he raised the damn taxes! It's the American Way to Shop Cheap. Just what did he expect??? The putz!
How can the City collect taxes on Internet Sales?
you hit the cupie doll on the head. they use smokers, a vilified group as the test case. the rest of shoppers who use the internet are next, after all, its only fair right?
precedent, precedent, precedent.
My brother works on the lake freighters. He started getting his smokes off the Internet after the taxes went sky-high. Did it for several years. The state of Michigan got him this year for over 2,000 bucks. He finally listened to me, and both he and his wife now roll their own, but it was an expensive way of convincing him.
That's next. You know you are supposed to pay taxes on all internet purchases to your state and city governments.
Wait until everybody gets their bill.
How in hell does anyone know what you buy on the Internet? That's the real scary part.
Growing tobacco is perfectly legal and relatively simple. The tobacco-nazis should be taught again the lesson of Prohibition. You cannot control that which can be easily made by the average person.
I guess the lawmakers are using the RICO act. There is another one and I get them mixed up.
Illinois is hitting their smokers hard on this issue. One gal is afraid she will go to jail because she can't afford to pay. And the longer she doesn pay, the more "interest" the puke bag state adds on.
Nice, eh?
OMG!!
Some of the online vendors folded and gave their customer list to the FEDS.
Some of the online vendors folded and gave their customer list to the FEDS.
Can't stand the high taxes?
Afraid to order off of the Internet?
Then start rolling your own!!! I find everything but the machine downtown at the local Smoke Shop. Also, Rite Aid and grocery stores also sell the bags of tobacco and the filtered tubes.
I roll out a beautiful carton for a little under $8 dollars. Premiums in my state are now up to $45-$50 a carton. Can you imagine the money I have saved over the past 4 years since I now roll my own? It's mind boggling.
under $50.00
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Sounds like the good people of New York will have to have out of state friends buy them their smokes and then ship it to them.
Illinois has something called a use tax. If you buy your smokes some place else, then your suppose to pay the tax. Illinois also has a use tax for consumer goods. New York City obviously has something similar.
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Buyers Off The Hook on Online Cigarette Taxes (WI)
07/22/2005-Gov.Jim Doyle ordered the state Department of Revenue late Thursday to end an effort to collect back taxes and penalties from thousands of Wisconsin residents who bought cigarettes over the Internet.
Doyle's action came hours after he said he was troubled by the plan. The department in the last month had sent 1,000 letters ordering taxpayers to compute and pay their delinquent taxes for online cigarette purchases from September 1999 to the present. The letters startled many taxpayers who inundated the department with concerns over how they would pay.
UPS agrees to end cigarette deliveries to individuals
10/25/2005-ALBANY, N.Y. - The world's largest shipping carrier, UPS Inc., will stop delivering cigarettes to individuals in the United States under an agreement announced Monday with state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
The agreement is the latest in federal and state efforts to combat the sale of under-taxed cigarette and to fight underage smoking. Most under-taxed or untaxed cigarettes are sold by Indian tribes, where the taxation of sales to non-Indians is
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