Your sign is has more truth than you may realize.
NYC goes after smokers who bought cigarettes on Internet
By SARA KUGLER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK, March 7 — Thousands of New Yorkers who bought cigarettes on the Internet without paying sales taxes will be reordered to pay a collective $33 million that went unpaid, officials said.
City lawyers say New York loses millions of dollars a year from unpaid taxes on Internet cigarette purchases. They have gone after the online dealers with a series of lawsuits in recent years.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday that the city reached a settlement with Virginia-based eSmokes. The company will provide the names and addresses of New York customers from 2000 to 2003, when a state ban on Internet sales took effect.
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It's sickening how cigarettes are a legal commodity and yet we are all made to feel like criminals because we buy it.
And it's the American Way to Shop Cheap. What did the states expect from us when they raised the cigarette taxes through the roof to continually provide the lawmakers and the anti's with more of our money!