… as a result of cigarette smuggling, according to new data released … in the Empire State were smuggled. New York continues to have … highest inbound cigarette smuggling rate in the nation. The … estimate of state cigarette smuggling across the continental United … the second-highest inbound smuggling rate (44%) and New Mexico …
… believe most of it can be laid at the foot of smuggling. Some tax evasion will be casual, in the form … not the only scholars to identify cigarette smuggling as a large problem, especially in high-taxed … smoking rate by about five percent. Remarkably, smuggling isn’t the only major consequence of these higher …
… cigarettes leads to more smuggling, which may undermine the … simplicity, we call these actions “smuggling.” As it turns out, people … represents the state’s total smuggling rate. In 2018, Maine’s was … 8%, with 5.4 million packs smuggled. That would change dramatically … and it shows that Maine’s smuggling rate would leap to 25%. That …
… published estimates of cigarette smuggling in 47 of the 48 contiguous … in-state consumption was smuggled. In New York, almost 57 percent … we made for 2012. In the "smuggling rate" column a positive percentage … additional 7.7 packs are smuggled out. By contrast, the Arkansas … in the Razorback state are smuggled in. The last column indicates …
… it the amount of illicit smuggling of cigarettes to the Mountain … degree to which cigarettes are smuggled from state to state since … activity counts as illicit smuggling, though those transactions … cigarettes consumed there were smuggled out to other states. That … left the state. A casual smuggler is typically an individual …
… Director Michael LaFaive and Adjunct Scholar Todd Nesbit on cigarette smuggling was recently cited in Pacific Standard. The magazine cites in particular their finding that the state of New York has the highest cigarette smuggling rate in the nation, and has increased some 70 percent since 2006 due to …
An Op-Ed in the Belleville News Democrat co-written by Fiscal Policy Director Mike LaFaive shows that cigarette smuggling in Illinois will increase if a proposed hike in tobacco taxes there is approved. The information is based on this research by LaFaive and other Mackinac Center analysts.
… igan’s inbound cigarette smuggling rate was 10th highest in … Center’s 2008 cigarette tax and smuggling study, which likewise provided estimated smuggling rates for 47 of the 48 contiguous states. Michigan’s smuggling rate, which was measured … rate of casual cross-border smuggling by its residents. “Lansing’s …
… Michigan’s inbound cigarette smuggling rate was 10th highest in … Center’s 2008 cigarette tax and smuggling study, which likewise provided estimated smuggling rates for 47 of the 48 contiguous states. Michigan’s smuggling rate, which was measured … rate of casual cross-border smuggling by its residents. “Lansing’s …
… estimates for cigarette smuggling rates in 47 of the 48 contiguous … still has the 10th highest smuggling rate in the nation. The analysis … in 2013, 25 percent were smuggled in. “People don’t realize … This is the fifth set of smuggling rate estimates published … contained detailed histories of smuggling in Michigan and other states. …
