I’m headed out of town for about a week. Going to California. It’s funny that I briefly considered ordering snus there because the snus taxes are lower. Imagine that, buying tobacco in California is cheaper than Texas. In fact, at the beginning of September, smokeless taxes went up again here in Texas. Now it’s $1.13 [...]

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Pact Act today 387 to 25. Now it goes to Obama for a signature.
Happy St. Patrick’s day.
Get your credit cards ready. Snus is about to get pricier.
Sucks… but still not the end of the world.
For you tax rates, visit this link (PDF).

Today is the due date for the first round of ultra-high smokeless tobacco taxes in Texas. Let’s hope that consumers said a hearty, “Go fuck yourselves” to the state legislature and found ways to legally avoid the tax.
Since the beginning of September, smokeless tobacco in Texas has been taxed at least $1.32 per tin. The [...]

Not surprisingly, the Pennsylvania Senate was hostile to the House version of the budget, which would have raise smokeless tobacco rates, and is pushing yet another version. This version taxes table games at slots casinos, cigarette and natural gas drilling and removes the controversial taxes on on arts venues, small games of chance licensees, smokeless [...]

Let’s say I wanted to open up an online snus store here in Texas. Would I be able to compete with an online snus store in Alabama? No.
Alabama, you see, taxes snus at about 2 cents per tin. Texas, on the other hand, now taxes snus at about $1.40 cents per tin.
Now if we both [...]

Good news for people who buy from Pennsylvania-based snus warehouses. Lawmakers appear to have decided to leave cigar and smokeless tobacco alone despite the estimated $70 million a tax would generate in revenue.
Pennsylvania, like many states, faces a budget shortfall. But a tax on snus and other tobacco products would just chase Internet retailers out [...]