Every year more than 10 million people die unnecessarily from consuming tobacco, alcohol, and sugary beverages.1 In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises constraining fiscal space, ...

Sterling is finally ready for marijuana sales after City Council formally approved Ordinance 7, Series of 2024, and tacked on ...

The budget watchdog estimates the benefits of the tax cuts will be gone by the end of the decade as bracket creep drives ...

A CONTINUED Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) crackdown against illicit cigarette manufacturers has uncovered an estimated P8.54 billion in tax liabilities, the agency said on Thursday ...

ANOTHER large-scale raid by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) against the illegal cigarette trade uncovered P8.544 billion in tax liabilities. In a statement, the BIR announced it simultaneously ...

When the 21st Amendment was ratified in 1933, ending America's "noble experiment" with nationwide alcohol Prohibition, it ...

The economic implications of this shift are profound. Cigarettes, being part of the formal economy, are subject to excise ...

Two Chinese linked companies are under probe over claims of tax evasion involving importation of cigarettes. They are said to have imported ...

Most married couples file a joint income tax return. But there are some cases in which choosing the married filing separately option may be better. There are several tax breaks that married ...

So what can we do here in Maine? For a start, lawmakers should look at increasing the state’s tobacco tax on all tobacco products. Increasing taxes on tobacco products is a win-win proposition: ...

Banning domestic vape sales while preserving manufacturing for export may simply serve to expand the shadow market and line the pockets of customs officials.