aps45819
24/7 Single Dad
What kind of gas hog do you drive?
At 25mpg, you're talking a little over 3 gallons. There will soon be about a $20 a carton difference in price for cigs. One carton and you're ahead of buying them locally.
Md Passes largest tax hike in history.
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What kind of gas hog do you drive?
At 25mpg, you're talking a little over 3 gallons. There will soon be about a $20 a carton difference in price for cigs. One carton and you're ahead of buying them locally.
Dymphna
Loyalty, Friendship, Love
Virginia cigarette tax is 30 cents. $1.70 per pack less than MD will be. Gas is typically 10 cents cheaper per gallon. I think that legally, you can buy a carton of cigs, so that's $17 saved on smokes and about $2 on a tank of gas
awpitt
Main Streeter
You're right. I redid the figures. I think I hit a wrong key or hit something twice by mistake.What kind of gas hog do you drive?
At 25mpg, you're talking a little over 3 gallons. There will soon be about a $20 a carton difference in price for cigs. One carton and you're ahead of buying them locally.
aps45819
24/7 Single Dad
Legally, you can buy all you want, you just can't legally bring more than 2 packs back to MD.
MMDad
Lem Putt
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awpitt
Main Streeter
I guess, from a legal standpoint, the most one can save is $3.40 in cig tax and $2 on a tank of gas. It cost between $7 and $8 worth of gas to go from LP to Dahlgren and back so one would be spending $7 to save $5.40. Oh. I almost forgot, there's a bride toll going south bound. $2 I think. So now one is spending $9 to save $5.40 coming from LP. Of course if you're in LaPlata or south, you might break even.
awpitt
Main Streeter
That seems rather small. I though they'd allow a carton.
Dontcha just love it?
They want to tax it through the roof, then make it illegal for you to go anywhere else and get it.
When the smoking ban kicks in, I wonder if they'll make it illegal to eat at a restaurant outside of MD. 
aps45819
24/7 Single Dad
Pete
Repete
When the smoking ban kicks in, I wonder if they'll make it illegal to eat at a restaurant outside of MD.
They will probably require you to get a "MD" tatoo or something that way the wait staff can check and see if you are authorized to buy the #5 at Wendys over in VA.
terbear1225
Well-Known Member
When the smoking ban kicks in, I wonder if they'll make it illegal to eat at a restaurant outside of MD.
no, just to bring home your leftovers.
Pete
Repete
They will probably hire 100 fully equipped MD Customs officers with cars to check at the borders. It will cost $50M to try and stop you from saving $30 on gas and smokes.
edinsomd
New Member
They will probably hire 100 fully equipped MD Customs officers with cars to check at the borders. It will cost $50M to try and stop you from saving $30 on gas and smokes.
Don't give MOM any bright ideas!
Ed
awpitt
Main Streeter
Do they ever really enforce this? I know they sometimes have crackdowns on fireworks coming in from VA but that's just focused around the weeks leading up to July 4th.Dontcha just love it?
They want to tax it through the roof, then make it illegal for you to go anywhere else and get it.
Dukesdad
Well-Known Member
may not be the best idea
This is from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
More than 4,300 Pennsylvania buyers were targeted last week. The Revenue Department says these buyers alone owe $10 million in uncollected cigarette taxes since January 2005.
The state says it is targeting the people who have purchased at least 100 cartons because it figured anybody who bought that many cigarettes might be reselling them for profit.
But plenty of people hit with the unexpected bills have said that was not the case. A couple from Washington County, who bought cigarettes for their own use, will owe about $3,000 in taxes and penalties. An 82-year-old Pittsburgh-area man bought more than 400 cartons over the years; his excise taxes alone will come to $5,000. Sales taxes will be another $500 or more. Penalties could be $3,000.
Yet another woman told the Post-Gazette she owed $3,854. The state told her she'd have to pay 10 percent upfront, then about $150 a month over two years, to work off her debt. When she told the state she couldn't make such a large payment, she said she was informed that the state could place a lien on her home.
This is from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
More than 4,300 Pennsylvania buyers were targeted last week. The Revenue Department says these buyers alone owe $10 million in uncollected cigarette taxes since January 2005.
The state says it is targeting the people who have purchased at least 100 cartons because it figured anybody who bought that many cigarettes might be reselling them for profit.
But plenty of people hit with the unexpected bills have said that was not the case. A couple from Washington County, who bought cigarettes for their own use, will owe about $3,000 in taxes and penalties. An 82-year-old Pittsburgh-area man bought more than 400 cartons over the years; his excise taxes alone will come to $5,000. Sales taxes will be another $500 or more. Penalties could be $3,000.
Yet another woman told the Post-Gazette she owed $3,854. The state told her she'd have to pay 10 percent upfront, then about $150 a month over two years, to work off her debt. When she told the state she couldn't make such a large payment, she said she was informed that the state could place a lien on her home.
You laugh, but that's how it works. They make these control-freak laws, then spend millions of our tax dollars enforcing them.
I would love to know what their rationalization is for prohibiting MD residents from purchasing cigarettes in another state. This is a legal substance, not unlike Coca Cola or Triscuits or Little Debbie brownies. So should we be prohibited from buying those in VA as well?
I think we all know the real reason is that they don't wanting us circumventing their loony tax, but I'd be curious if anyone would actually have the guts to say that?
Pete
Repete
:gestapo:
It would be even sillier to pass a law you don't intend to enforce, wouldn't it?