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Texas Court of Appeals Excludes Oral Nicotine Products from Definition of Other Tobacco Products Alternative tobacco ...

A recent decision from the Oregon Supreme Court highlights the importance of understanding potential state and local tax ...

Last year the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (the ...

Colorado Reworks Tobacco Tax on Remote Sales of Cigars and Pipe Tobacco Effective 2024 With the governor’s signature on ...

In September 2015, Colorado announced its first tax free holiday. This concept was a holiday similar to most states’ ...

Most states offer some form of a sales tax holiday. Usually coinciding with the back to school calendar, shoppers are ...

E-cigarettes has been a hot button topic in state tax. Several states have been passing legislation to boost their ...

We’re Getting Refunds – New Jersey Wholesalers Can Be Next In 2012, a case came down in Florida which changed the ...

On May 29, 2024, the Circuit Court of Buchanan County, Missouri upheld the Department of Revenue’s interpretation of the ...

In the end of 2019, the Florida Supreme Court took an appeal from a Florida appellate court on a high-profile case that ...

As discussed in our prior blogs, Leon County Circuit Court Judge Karen Gievers ruled that the state law prohibiting ...

This summer included some important changes from the Louisiana legislature concerning its vapor product excise tax. ...

Effective August 1, 2015, Louisiana added Vapor Products to its wholesale tobacco tax regime. Specifically, the new tax ...

It is difficult to drive up the road in your city and not pass by at least a few new vapor shops. Vapor shops, which are ...

A List of Which States Tax Zero-Nicotine Vapor Products and Electronic Cigarettes Excise taxes on vapor products, ...

If your business sells tobacco in the state of New York, then you will likely need to understand your licensing and tax ...

When it comes to federal and state tobacco tax cases, the litigation is never ending. In 2009, Congress passed the ...

Each year, more and more companies begin to sell online. From clothes, to electronics, to even tobacco, companies have ...

State tobacco tax laws are often dated and seldom reviewed in the modern economy. In many states, we have been able to ...

We discussed the legalization process of medical marijuana within the state of Florida in a recent blog, SB 8-A: More ...

Following trend, Florida legalized the use of medical marijuana in 2014 when the Governor signed Senate Bill 1030 into ...

In a 36-3 vote, the Alaska House of Representatives recently passed House Bill 119, which would make major changes to ...

Proposition 1 was turned down on the October ballot for the city of Unalaska, Alaska. Voter’s had to decide whether to ...

Since early 2013, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation decided to re-try prior litigation ...

How to Get an Illinois License to Sell Tobacco Products and Pay Tax If you plan to or currently sell tobacco products, ...

Tobacco manufacturers and importers face a gauntlet of licensing and tax requirements to start and stay in business. To ...

Despite the well-known and proven ideology that the legislature holds the power to declare taxability of particular ...

Owning and operating a California tobacco product retail or wholesale business comes with many different licensing and ...

Recordkeeping Compliance Issues and Penalties That California Tobacco Retailers Need to Know Businesses selling tobacco ...

How to Prepare for the Reversal of San Francisco And New Jersey Cannabis Tax Enforcement The legal cannabis industry is ...

How to Prepare for Hawaii’s New Excise Tax on Vapor Products Hawaii became the most recent state to enact excise taxes ...

It is critical to file a return in order to take advantage of statute of limitations protections. In most states, the ...

There are many tax and licensing requirements for tobacco manufacturers. In general, the first entity to manufacture or ...

Nevada’s Tobacco Tax and Licensing Rules for Retailers and Distributors The sale of tobacco products, including ...

Often, Other Tobacco Products (“OTP”) Distributors “know” that OTP tax must be paid on all OTP products. How do they ...

Other Tobacco Products (“OTP”) Distributors often believe that they “know” how much OTP tax should be paid on each OTP ...

Virginia Tax and Licensing Rules for Tobacco Distributors & Retailers All tobacco products, other than cigarettes, are ...

Experts state tobacco sales should be banned during the COVID-19 crisis and have recommended users to stop. In response ...

Tobacco Tax Refunds has filed millions of dollars on one specific issue – wholesale sales price. Micjo v. DBPR, a case ...

Ohio License and Tax Rules for Selling Tobacco Products Tobacco Businesses in Ohio are subject to the various tax and ...

Michigan Tobacco Tax And Licensing Requirements Selling tobacco products in Michigan requires careful consideration of ...

In 2012, a landmark tobacco tax case was decided. Specifically, a Florida court ruled in Micjo Inc v Florida DBPR, that ...

On May 2, 2024, the Mississippi Governor signed SB 3105, which enacted a new excise tax on the sale of heated tobacco ...

Earlier this year the New York Department of Taxation and Finance (NYDTF) announced important legislative changes ...

Tobacco Tax and Licensing Rules for Pennsylvania Businesses Pennsylvania requires businesses that sell tobacco products ...

For years, there has been litigation surrounding the taxability of blunt wraps, primarily at the state level. In many ...

Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, recently announced a plan to introduce federal legislation to legalize the ...

Medical marijuana use is currently one of the most controversial topics in politics. To date, 29 states and the District ...

In a recent decision, Global Hookah Distributors, Inc. (2025), the First District Court of Appeal for the State of ...

A routine part of your tobacco licensing compliance is obtaining a tobacco tax surety bond or another form of deposit ...

Florida’s Tobacco Tax and Sale Permit Requirements Florida closely regulates the transfer and sale of tobacco products ...

If you sell or plan to sell tobacco products in Texas, then permit compliance and tax reporting obligations should be a ...

Nevada Supreme Court Upholds Seizure of $272K Worth of Tobacco Products from Unlicensed Logistics Company Noncompliance ...

Washington State Tax and Licensing Needs for Tobacco, Vapor, and E-Cigarette Products As a tobacco product distributor ...

What Your Tobacco Product Invoice Needs to Show During a Tax Audit As many retailers and suppliers know, a tobacco ...

Are Tobacco Cessation Products Subject to State Excise Tax? What constitutes a tobacco product has drastically changed ...

The laws around the recreational use and sale of cannabis have drastically changed since 2012 when Colorado and ...