Taxes

The Kentucky House of Representatives has approved H.B. 32, which would increase the tax on other tobacco products, including cigars, from 15 percent to 25…

While the West Virginia Senate passed a bill that would raise the state’s tobacco tax rate on cigars and other tobacco products from 12 percent…

A bill containing a drastic increase to the tobacco tax in exchange for a gradual phase out of personal property taxes on manufacturing machinery, equipment,…

As part of a proposal to phase out the state’s business and inventory tax, legislators in West Virginia have introduced a bill that would raise…

Once again, an effort in Wyoming to increase the taxes charged on cigars and other tobacco products has failed. H.B. 0205 would have increased the…

The Kentucky House Budget Committee has passed a bill that would nearly double the state’s taxes on cigars. H.B. 32 would increase the tax on…

A group of delegates in the Virginia General Assembly have filed bills that will seek to increase the ban the sale of flavored tobacco products…

A legal process that has gone on for nearly three-and-a-half years came to an end today, as the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that an additional…

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam unveiled his 2020-2022 budget proposal today, which included a doubling of the state’s tobacco tax rate from 10 percent to 20…

Since 2013, smokers in Omaha have been paying an additional three percent tax on their tobacco. While that tax had a sunset clause of 2022,…

One of the strongest federal anti-tobacco bills proposed in recent memory passed its first hurdle earlier today. The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Health…