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
There are 3 types of source for internet cigarettes purchase:
- Interstate trade from the states with low tax (like Virginia , Kentucky ) to the states and cities with high taxes.
- Interstate trade from Indian (Native American) reservations.
- International trade from the stores located out of the USA.
But there are some people and institutions that are not satisfied with such kind of trade. These are:
- Departments and correspondingly General Attorneys, for tax reasons.
- Phillip Morris Company, because of its regional, sales and marketing policy.
And they do enormous efforts either to stop the internet cigarettes sales or to make customers pay taxes. View details about cigarettes trade ban in NY
Federal and state courts have consistently upheld the prohibiting measures, most recently in a February decision from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
The state will employ a variety of mechanisms to enforce the law (prohibiting cigarettes shipments to consumers), said Michael Bucci, a spokesman for the Department of Taxation and Finance. The law gives the state the ability to go after carriers which deliver shipments, he said. And while the state has no authority over the U.S. Postal Service, it can prosecute shippers who violate the law, Bucci said.
Actually, this law seems to us
unconstitutional
and undermining freedom of Internet trade, but it is in force now. And we have to understand its consequences (how does it affect smokers)
This law prohibits selling through internet. But it has nothing about the customers who purchase cigarettes. Therefore it is still legal to buy internet cigarettes. That's why there is nothing dangerous for the customers themselves.
VERY IMPORTANT
This law prohibits selling and delivering cigarettes, but it's still legal for a smoker to buy them.
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USPS does not comply with this law, as it is a federal agency.
Thus the NY State did not manage to stop cigarettes-by-mail trade but it is still trying to make difficulties for it.
Now, let's analyze all three types of cigarettes online sources, from the point of comfort, benefit and safety of the customer…
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