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The cigarette tax proves a point--raise taxes and you legally sell less of a product.
Yes, the smoking lifestyle is going out of style. Now the State is claiming it "lost" $74 million in tax revenues--well wasn't that the idea of the no smoking campaigns and high taxes?
But, did you know this, "But another possibility also is that people are simply buying their cigarettes from lower-tax states through the Internet the Board of Equalization didn’t supply data on out-of-state sales. Even if it did, its not uncommon for Internet purveyors to under-report sales. No data was supplied, either, for black market (and Mexican) purchases which reportedly have boomed as taxes go up."
People will find ways to not pay taxes to a government that wastes money. The Internet, Mexico and out of State purchases are ways you can avoid government taxes.
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Yes, the smoking lifestyle is going out of style. Now the State is claiming it "lost" $74 million in tax revenues--well wasn't that the idea of the no smoking campaigns and high taxes?
But, did you know this, "But another possibility also is that people are simply buying their cigarettes from lower-tax states through the Internet the Board of Equalization didn’t supply data on out-of-state sales. Even if it did, its not uncommon for Internet purveyors to under-report sales. No data was supplied, either, for black market (and Mexican) purchases which reportedly have boomed as taxes go up."
People will find ways to not pay taxes to a government that wastes money. The Internet, Mexico and out of State purchases are ways you can avoid government taxes.
More...