What are you doing Wednesday night? If you’re anywhere near Philadelphia, head over to Holt’s Cigar Co., and meet the Fuente family. Carlto Fuente will offer cigars and accessories typically available only at the Casa Fuente store in Las Vegas. Holt’s will be raffling off a limited edition Opus X humidor, four Phillies tickets and [...]
Doubtless, Pennsylvania is an important battleground n the struggle over cigar taxes right now. It is one of the few states friendly to cigars – only one of two that doesn’t tax them, according to an editorial on PennLive.com. While the budget is a mess and the word is that cars should arrive relatively unscathed, [...]
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You thought it was gone? Well, Pennsylvania‘s cigar tax may be on life support, but Governor Ed Rendell isn’t giving it up easily. According to Bloomberg: Rendell, a Democrat in his final year in office, said he expects Pennsylvania to address its revenue shortage by cutting expenditures and imposing new taxes on cigars, smokeless [...]
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The mid-term elections are less than six months away, an opportunity for cigar-smoking Americans to make the decisions that will either protect outrights or hasten their demise. From 2007 through 2009, we learned what can happen to our freedom to smoke cigars, as draconian legislation was enacted that hurt small businesses – even in the [...]
A plan to cut the Pennsylvania sales tax and extend it goods and services not currently taxed looks like it’s dead on arrival. Governor Ed Rendell explained, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, “It’s just very complex and you’d be stepping on the toes of a lot of special interests. I don’t think there’s an appetite to [...]
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