John Fisher is usually pretty good on keeping us up to date on the latest tax news, but he missed one this week from New York State:
TSB-M-08(2)M, Change in the Method of Calculating the Tobacco Products Tax on Snuff
Definitions are always in order, because there are probably many people in this US of A who don't know what snuff really is. Have you ever seen it on the shelf for sale? It comes in one ounce cans.
Anyway, I used to sell snuff back when my father was in the wholesale bidness. We sold Tops, Strawberry, CC, Garrett's Sweet, just to name a few. Ah, what pleasant memories of the aroma of a tobacco room!
ChEAr$, Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA
I started working for IRS in 1971, before Congress had gotten rid of a lot of excise taxes. We never did get an explanation from our instructors as to exactly what "adulterated butter and filled cheese" were. Maybe it's just as well.
Adulterated butter these days is not illegal between consenting butters of appropriate age.
As for filled cheese, it's filled with hot air, and the bureaucrats felt too close an affinity to want to cause them trouble.
Stu
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