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Punched in the Face by Virginia Excise Tax on Tobacco Products
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Wait til Labor Day sale..... it’ll be cheaper?Tobacco will never be more plentiful or cheaper than it is RIGHT NOW. Guaranteed.
Say's you. we cant here in Utah. of course in this state, any thing that the Church want's less of they WILL get.
Yup for shame. Back in my cigarette days they had the lowest tax on smokes in all of America. Normally when I’m out of state I like to visit their B&M shops. Now that I know this I won’t bother, even though I go to VA often. Glad I live in PA.
A bit ironic as Virginia is famous for growing tobacco...
I would make a road trip south and load up once or twice a year.
I'm still surprised that I can walk into a store and buy a chainsaw, no waiting list, license, or anything. I can just buy one like it is a sack of apples or bread.
Virginia was just the name of the variety... actually the genre. Virginias are grown in many places, even in other countries.
It was a major original grower, even at one point making tobacco legal tender in the state.
You're about 80% below the global average for tobacco tax.
And if they're only charging by price then the 20% tax is still practically irrelevant on bulk tobacco, whereas some places tax by weight and trying to buy bulk tobacco only gets you in even more trouble.
Cancelling those responsible for the legislation would be more effective.
Back in 2009 or so Florida put an 85% wholesale tax on pipe tobacco and a different tax on cigarettes. There was a zero percent tax on cigars. Pipe tobacco mfgs, are not the brightest bulbs on the tree.
If you cancel the order, how will you get tobacco? Are you just going to quit, or were you thinking that driving somewhere else to buy might be cheaper? What are your options?
Even so, pipe tobacco is still the cheapest tobacco product.
Even so, pipe tobacco is still the cheapest tobacco product.
You can't even mail order tobacco in Washington state, and a couple others, too (Maine? Utah? New Jersey?). In fact, that annoying law was a major consideration in moving to a state without it. As it happens, I now live in a state with higher tobacco taxes than many other states, but they don't nick me for it at checkout online. Thus, all my purchases come from South Carolina (you know the place). Four years later I've accumulated about 6 additional years of tobacco in my cellar. It's interesting to think that at the rate I smoke -- about a bowl a day -- I only need to spend about $12.50 a month on fine tobacco. But pipes? That's where the real money pit is. Not that I'm complaining.
No bans in NJ. I imagine they’d be more interested in more consistent ways to collect tax than banning anything.
I take your point; however, I live in Virginia and am not overly concerned with the global average for tobacco tax. Sure it might provide a spurt of gratefulness (?) that I don't live in New Zealand or Canada, but at the end of the day it's an additional tax I didn't pay prior and for that it sucks.
Legislatures love a sin tax. There's never sufficient push-back from voters on these, and a certain satisfied moral indignation from non-smokers puts bills through. Plus, smokers tend to buy the products anyway, so it pays off. Legislatures are always looking for a bountiful revenue stream, so a sin tax certainly works. Second only to ABC stores, state owned liquor stores. How much of this contributes to the public wellbeing? Suspicion abounds.
