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If you are a common US citizen seeking reasonable ways of buying your favorite smokes without going bankrupt this essay is strongly recommended for your sake!
Contents:
Introduction
Interstate Trade from the States with Low Taxes
Interstate Trade from Indian Reservation
International Trade - Stores Located Out of the USA
SAVINGS COMPARISON
Conclusions
The one-page greeting from the Michigan Department of Treasury came out of the mailbox, but to Julia Sidebottom it may as well have come from the moon. Tucked amid the legalese was the line that said her boyfriend owed the state $4,797.87 in unpaid cigarette taxes.
Michigan , Illinois and other states are giving smokers who buy cigarettes over the Internet a lot to think about, in the form of letters notifying them that they owe thousands of dollars in taxes on bargain-priced smokes. In the first quarter of 2005 more than 530 Michigan residents received tax bills, with the average individual liability being $3,200.
In Illinois , about 1,300 people who bought cigarettes over the Internet are about to be notified that they must pay the state's 98-cent-per-pack tax, an Illinois Department of Revenue spokeswoman said.
In January 2005, New York City 's Department of Finance notified about 3,700 people that they had skirted the city's $3-per-pack tax by purchasing over the Internet. Some owed as much as $10,000 in unpaid taxes. Ohio has targeted 1,000 people for non-payment of cigarette taxes.
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