Lawmakers Seek Cigarette Tax Compromise
Associated Press
Published: February 5, 2009
Updated: February 5, 2009
Published: February 5, 2009
Updated: February 5, 2009
Mississippi lawmakers are moving closer to negotiations on a cigarette tax increase.
The House on Thursday declined to accept the Senate’s proposal to set the excise tax at 49 cents a pack, up from the current 18.
Instead, the House voted to seek talks between the two chambers. The House proposes $1 a pack.
President Barack Obama signed a law Wednesday that will increase the federal cigarette excise tax by 62 cents, to $1.01 a pack, on March 31 to help pay for an expansion of a children’s health
insurance program. Mississippi lawmakers say they don’t know how the federal increase will affect talks about the state rate.
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