… increasing tobacco taxes also increases cigarette smuggling is featured in a story that ran in multiple Hearst … pack, ranks 14th in the country for cigarette smuggling. Just over 22 percent of cigarettes consumed in the Nutmeg State in 2011 were smuggled, a 10 percent increase over the Center’s 2009 …
… avoidance (what we dub “smuggling”) and other unintended consequences … of states with the most smuggling to take the No. 2 position … taxes to reduce interstate smuggling. Cigarette excise tax rates … obvious profit opportunity in smuggling. Local cigarette excise taxes … revenue stream and increased smuggling. Punitive taxes in high-tax …
… n this study, the authors consider cigarette smuggling from two angles. First, they employ a statistical model to estimate the degree to which cigarette smuggling occurs in 47 of the 48 contiguous U.S. states. … California — known to have problems with cigarette smuggling. The author's findings suggest that state policymakers …
… estimates for cigarette smuggling rates in 47 of the 48 contiguous … Michigan has the 10th highest smuggling rate in the nation. “People … This is the third set of smuggling rate estimates published … contained detailed histories of smuggling in Michigan and other states. … country, so too has rampant smuggling. The top smuggling rates …
… expected increase in cigarette smuggling. This proposal will hurt … avoidance, what we call “smuggling.” We published a statistical … degree to which cigarettes are smuggled around the country, as well … a function of cigarette smuggling. We estimate that, if the … adopted, Michigan’s cigarette smuggling rate would leap to 30.6%. …
… update to their 2008 study "Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling," Michael LaFaive and Todd Nesbit show the strong correlation between high cigarette taxes and smuggling, theft and other violent crimes. (Note: The … North Carolina as the basic source state for smuggled cigarettes.) ##### Kathy Hoekstra is a communications …
A study of cigarette smuggling performed by Center analysts … with fighting cigarette smuggling in the Empire State. The … state-by-state cigarette smuggling rates. The Center’s study … New York as the number one smuggling state in the nation. We estimated … untaxed. That is, they were smuggled in from elsewhere. The Mackinac …
… cigarette tax hike. Lastly, we estimated the smuggling rate differences in Minnesota with an excise … $2.90. Raising the tax by 7 cents hiked the state smuggling rate by 0.8 percentage points. If that becomes … annual average Minnesota will remain a top five smuggling state and for little in the way of gains to public …
… the degree to which cigarettes are smuggled, by state, including those exported … may dramatically hike cigarette smuggling. Our most recent estimates indicate … model we find that Massachusetts smuggling leaps to 38 percent of the market, … 2019. Without the ban the state’s smuggling rate would be much lower. Continued …
… referenced our cigarette smuggling research. Nearly four years … scholarship on cigarette taxes and smuggling, and we have cited their … some cases, it understates smuggling on the other. If we were … why would we understate smuggling? We can only speculate, but … have a bias for overselling smuggling. The 2015 report, published …
