Lets talk about Cigar Taxes! Cigar smokers are in the minority, so it can be easy for the politicians to raise taxes on cigars. It’s critical for cigar smokers to make their voice heard. Every cigar smoker should join Cigar Rights of America. Today, we talk about the tax increase landscape. The Cigar Authority is a member of the United Podcast Network and is recorded live in front of a studio audience at Studio 21 […]
Cigar taxes are out of control. We talk about how this happened and when. The answer may surprise you. The Cigar Authority is a member of the United Podcast Network and is recorded live in front of a studio audience at Studio 21 Podcast Cafe upstairs at Two Guys Smoke Shop in Salem, NH and as always you can find many of the cigars we discuss at https://www.2GuysCigars.com/.
The House Ways & Means Democratic staff has begun circulating a list of priorities and revenue raisers for the “Human Infrastructure” bill that will be voted on in coming weeks through the reconciliation process that only requires a simple majority (51 votes) in the Senate. This is the first step in this process and unfortunately the committee’s priorities include a $96 billion tobacco tax increase that would likely include both premium cigars and pipe tobacco […]
BANNED IN BOSTON… THE WAR ON TOBACCO CONTINUES Another Editorial by David Garofalo It’s Columbus Day, a day to celebrate the discovery of Tobacco and Cigars, and a day to discover why there is a war against tobacco. A few weeks ago, the Governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker placed a four-month ban on all vaping products in response to the popularity of e-cigarettes and after nine people died in the United States from a mysterious […]
CIGAR TAX FOR ON-LINE SALES SET TO TAKE EFFECT Editorial by David Garofalo This whole thing began with the growth on the internet and the 1992 Supreme Court case Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, that determined due to the constitutional law, states could not collect sales taxes from purchases made by their residents from out-of-state vendors that did not have a physical presence within that state, barring legislation from the United States Congress that would allow them to […]
It’s Tax Day again, and still unfair to the smoker. Another Editorial by David Garofalo The discrimination against smokers, buyers and sellers of tobacco products all began in 1794, when the secretary of the treasury Alexander Hamilton introduced the first ever, federal excise tax. It was on tobacco products only, and after some major modifications, Hamilton’s original proposal passed only to be repealed shortly thereafter. It was believed to have an insignificant effect on the federal budget. Even though Hamilton’s […]
The beginning of the New Year marks the opening of state capitols across the nation, as legislative bodies begin their deliberations for 2017. We are only in the opening days of January 2017, and already there are cigar related bills, both positive and negative, in almost a dozen states. CRA will work to keep you informed of legislation that we need to either support or defeat over the course of the coming weeks and months. With […]
A tobacco tax that was included in the budget for West Virginia was signed by Democratic Governor Earl Ray Tomblin. Over the last few weeks as the state looked at a possible shut down the tobacco tax became an on again off again debate. The new budget raises the OTP tax 71% from the existing 7%. The new tax of 12% will raise the cost of a cigar that has an MSRP of $10.00 to $10.60. […]
Each week we share some of the news that comes across our desk about upcoming legislation.. In a quiet week we have stories from Pennsylvania, West Virginia and the country of Uganda. Pennsylvania – In Scranton, smoking outside the downtown bus station will soon be banned as The County of Lackawanna Transit System board voted to ban smoking outside the Lackawanna Transit Center at its meeting Tuesday via MassTransitMag https://www.masstransitmag.com/news/12209613/brief-colts-bans-smoking-outside-transit-center West Virginia – The West Virginia State […]
44 days ago we reported that a series of measures were passed by the California senate. The delay to move the bills to the desk of the Governor came from the same legislative representatives that passed the measure because of a looming threat from an industry lobbyist to run a campaign that would attack unrelated initiative campaigns. The measure to raise the tobacco purchase age to 21 and allow local counties to impose an additional […]