A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to discourage interstate bootlegging of cigarettes by increasing the Federal tax on cigarettes and to provide payments to certain States which do not impose more than a 3-cent special tax on a pack of cigarettes.

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

26 January 1978

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Status

Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summary

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an additional excise tax on cigarettes to be paid into a Cigarette Tax Trust Fund in the Treasury and disbursed to States which do not impose more than a three-cent special tax on a pack of cigarettes.

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/house-bill/10579
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