{"id":530,"date":"2011-04-07T12:40:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2014-01-15T19:58:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T19:58:32","slug":"cute-story-from-connecticut-about-avoiding-cigarette-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Cute story from Connecticut about avoiding cigarette taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Connecticut\"<\/a><\/p>\n

OK, this made me chuckle, and it kind of highlights some of the problems with states having wildly divergent cigarette taxes.<\/p>\n

A gas station in Chester, N.Y., <\/a>which is right on the N.Y.-Connecticut border, parked an ice cream truck at the far end of its parking lot, which is technically in Connecticut, so it could sell cigarettes for $1.35 less a pack than what they cost in New York. The Connecticut cigarette tax is $3 a pack, while the N.Y. tax is $4.35 a pack.<\/p>\n

The gas station is using an old ice cream truck and according to the Connecticut Department of Revenue, it is legal.<\/p>\n

This is kind of cute, but it also shows the problems with states having different cigarette taxes. If you have one state with a tax $1 a pack higher than a neighbouring state, then smokers will go to the trouble of crossing the border to load up on cartons of cigarettes. If they buy six cartons of cigarettes, they’ve just saved $60 in taxes. It also really ads to the black market of cigarettes, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, this made me chuckle, and it kind of highlights some of the problems with states having wildly divergent cigarette taxes. A gas station in Chester, N.Y., which is right on the N.Y.-Connecticut border, parked an ice cream truck at the far end of its parking lot, which is technically in Connecticut, so it could … Continue reading Cute story from Connecticut about avoiding cigarette taxes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taxes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Connecticut.jpg?fit=513%2C365&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-8y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3447,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3447","url_meta":{"origin":530,"position":0},"title":"California Legislature finally considering raising cigarette taxes $2 a pack","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"August 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 I know this will surprise a lot of people, but California actually has one of the lowest state cigarette taxes in the U.S. Californians only pay 87 cents a pack on cigarettes, while the average state cigarette tax in the country is $1.60. 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