Seems kind of backwards doesn’t it.
I’ve done a lot of business with mark and I’m glad he doesn’t charge excise tax ?
Excise Tax on Tobacco Shipped Within the United States?
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I’ve done a lot of business with mark and I’m glad he doesn’t charge excise tax ?
Tobaccopipes is no longer in Florida once they were bought by Sutliff. It’s sold out of Virginia now.
Yeah i know its why i dont shop with them too often anymore. SP and Boswells are my main haunts.
Smoking pipes.com charged me for the Michigan excise tax. Not happy about it, but at least it wasn’t 85%…
I own 20 acres of timber in Cedar County Missouri.
It’s been in my family since 1876.
For years the annual property tax was $9 and something, but a couple of years ago it was lowered to $8 and change.
That’s likely because of a decrease in the board foot price of timber.
Setting timberland tax rates ridiculously low in Missouri is done as a favor to the charcoal and white oak stave bolt industry. That’s good.
The bad is, that since I only pay a pouch of Borkum Riff’s worth of taxes a year, I have no incentive to sell it. This in turn drives timberland prices up to insane levels.
Nobody likes to pay taxes, themselves.
But they are all for taxing the other guy.
Missouri is 50th of 50 states in schoolteacher pay.
It’s been in my family since 1876.
For years the annual property tax was $9 and something, but a couple of years ago it was lowered to $8 and change.
That’s likely because of a decrease in the board foot price of timber.
Setting timberland tax rates ridiculously low in Missouri is done as a favor to the charcoal and white oak stave bolt industry. That’s good.
The bad is, that since I only pay a pouch of Borkum Riff’s worth of taxes a year, I have no incentive to sell it. This in turn drives timberland prices up to insane levels.
Nobody likes to pay taxes, themselves.
But they are all for taxing the other guy.
Missouri is 50th of 50 states in schoolteacher pay.
It is just a matter of time before every state hits us with an excise tax and then refuses us the ability to order on line by passing the excise tax. Prices are going no where but up and I don't see an out unless somehow the pipe mfgs and dealers pull a rabbit out of their asses.
I so wish you were wrong, Harris, but I fear you are spot on.....
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Excise tax is fine, as long as online ordering remains. For many of us, any semblance of a local shop doesn't exist.
I believe that’s the issue, my local tobacco shops carry very little pipe tobacco as it’s considered bulk, unlike a cigar that is wrapped in a leaf, and therefore victim of excise. Makes no sense to me, maybe they should wrap the pipe tobacco in a leaf then tin it. For every law there seems to be 10 loopholes, until you live in places where the government controls every aspect of your life for your own good, or you loose freedom of making your own choices for someone else’s good. Let’s ban tobacco because some segment of the population smokes too much. The scary part is that there are people that are fine with that while whining about other government restrictions at the same time.
Don’t blame the vendor. They are doing what they are required by law to do: act as tax collectors. Blame your state’s politicians and the people who elected them.
