New Bill Increases Tax on E-Cigarettes [View all]
New Bill Increases Tax on E-Cigarettes
(KUTV) A Utah lawmaker is looking to make some revenue on popular “e-cigarettes” – the alternative to smoking, which has become extremely popular in Utah.
Representative Paul Ray say they are too popular, and that kids and teenagers rare getting into the act. A new bill outlaws people under the age of 19 from going into smoke shops, but more importantly, it hikes up takes on e-cigarettes. And, for the growing entrepreneurs who say e-cigarettes are a safe alternative to smoke, the bill would smoke their growing businesses.
E-cigarettes are battery powered and heat up a nicotine solution, which creates a vapor – not smoke that you can inhale.
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Jason Cornfield of Electronic Stix does not agree with Ray’s tax hike, though.
“If you raise the price of everything with an 86% tax it’s going to put prices out of reach of the normal consumer and we’d have to move states or go out of business.”
Ray, however, says the tax isn’t about money.
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