cigarette tax
S-CHIP RYO Developments
illustrating the inequities of the new S-CHIP bill as it’s applied to various tobacco products.
S-CHIP Wrecked
Anger, confusion and disbelief struck a small portion of the Roll Your Own community earlier this week when the newly revised S-CHIP bill passed with a none too surprising, overwhelming majority. The bill’s revision focused on placing the entire financial brunt of the program on smokers. The government then proceeded to pick on the [...]
Cigarettes Part 1
Tobacco in general and cigarettes in particular boasted ever growing sales despite economic trends that inspired a plethora of creative tax schemes. Not quite the bloated schedules commanded routinely nowadays but the onset of creative tobacco taxes took root early on making the bastardization of fair taxes on tobacco usual and customary.
