IL Tobacco Taxes

[Mis Pipas]

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9) - Bob

Here you pay USD 80 tax per kilo of tobacco imported. And if the purchase is greater than 75 USD you also pay 12% import tax and 17% VAT. In addition, from next month we will pay for customs clearance expenses. A bargain !!

 

[Chasing Embers]

If they don't ban online sales outright, they'll make it too expensive to do.

 

[sablebrush52]

If they don't ban online sales outright, they'll make it too expensive to do.

That's the idea. No one is stopping you from purchasing tobacco to smoke, except you. If you don't want to pay all of the costs and decide not to purchase, that's your choice.

 

[Chasing Embers]

That's the idea. No one is stopping you from purchasing tobacco to smoke, except you. If you don't want to pay all of the costs and decide not to purchase, that's your choice.

And the reason I started hordin.....er cellaring tobacco years ago.?

 

[3rdguy]

Here you pay USD 80 tax per kilo of tobacco imported. And if the purchase is greater than 75 USD you also pay 12% import tax and 17% VAT. In addition, from next month we will pay for customs clearance expenses. A bargain !!

You need a shipping buddy.

 

[brian64]

Illinois’ population shrank on net for five straight years, a trend primarily driven by Illinoisans leaving.

Moody’s: New taxes could accelerate Illinois exodus

Moody’s Investors Service in a report Feb. 5 underscored the top fiscal challenges the state faces in the coming year. Among them: “massive” pension debt, “chronic” annual deficits and a years-long outmigration crisis threatening to shrink the state’s tax base.

www.illinoispolicy.org

Population shrinkage: Illinois’ dirty laundry

www.illinoispolicy.org

 

[Mis Pipas]

Always will be someone bring it in a suitcase?

 

[canadianpuffer]

If they don't ban online sales outright, they'll make it too expensive to do.

Ya that’s the Canadian story. Peck did the math on it a while ago. But I was like $130 of duty for 4 tins + the $9.95 customs handling fee. So ordering is really for variety.

 

[bent1]

The nanny state wants us to pack our pipes with the other weed..

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Use my address.. Ill be sure to tax you at a lower rate. No seriously, we can call it the tobacco underground railroad. Haha

 

[BROBS]

You’re like a white male Harriet Tubman.

 

[Casual]

Public boards are a poor choice for organizing international smuggling syndicates.

 

[didimauw]

Huh, I used to go out of my way and go over the border of Wisconsin, to get my cigs in Illinois. Actually, less of wisconsinites do that still....

 

[BROBS]

IL in his case is ISRAEL.

 

[sablebrush52]

Illinois’ population shrank on net for five straight years, a trend primarily driven by Illinoisans leaving.

Amazing to figure out that a state's population shrinks when people leave that state. How much in tax dollars did making that revelation cost?

 

[sablebrush52]

The nanny state wants us to pack our pipes with the other weed..

This is a truly false equivalency. The legalization of "that other weed" has nothing to do with tobacco. It's an admission that prohibition hasn't worked. It's simply enriched career criminals.
Now begins the process of normalizing "that other weed" so that the process of social marginalization can begin; dissemination of data that shows the health hazards, such as increased risks of a variety of cancers, permanently impaired cognitive functioning, etc, then follored by "death by a thousand cuts" attack campaign, and "that other weed" will be about as socially popular as smoking or baby killing.

 

[Bengel]

Amazing to figure out that a state's population shrinks when people leave that state. How much in tax dollars did making that revelation cost?

I believe the op is Israeli

 

[didimauw]

IL in his case is ISRAEL.

Ohhhh that makes much more sense....

 

[brian64]

Amazing to figure out that a state's population shrinks when people leave that state. How much in tax dollars did making that revelation cost?

LOL...I believe the point is IL has had a net population decrease, which is supposedly primarily due to people moving out of the state...as opposed to other factors, such as birth rates vs deaths for example.

As for how many tax dollars were spent figuring that out, I have no idea...but apparently IL has no shortage of tax dollars for all kinds of wonderful things in spite of their dwindling tax base...such as the state now paying for sex change operations.

 

[sablebrush52]

I believe the op is Israeli

I was quoting from @brian64 s post, which is about Illinois population decrease being related to people leaving the state. But hey, Illinois, Israel, they both start with the letter I.