Camel Cigarettes

Besides falling below budget estimates, which typically anticipate some revenue growth year to year, personal income taxes in February, 2008, actually dropped 14.3 percent below what was collected in the same month in 2007. The state credits at least some of the difference to greater-than-expected issuances of tax refunds at this stage.

buy camel taxes were off 2 percent last month, 1.2 percent for the year. Thanks to a major hike in the tax, annual cigarette tax collections had recently exceeded $1 billion, representing about 5 percent of the state’s total budget. But with voters approving a statewide ban on smoking in indoor public places in November, 2006, cigarette sales have become less reliable.

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