By Carolyn Thompson
Buffalo, New York (AP)
New York’s latest attempt to tax lucrative Native American smokeshop sales to non-Indian customers has generated mountains of legal briefs, hours of argument and a seemingly constant flurry of court decisions.
What it hasn’t generated is any of the roughly half-million dollars per day in projected state revenue.
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New York (AP)
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration is suing a tobacco company in Washington state, saying it illegally sells and distributes untaxed cigarettes in New York.
The suit was filed last week in federal court in Brooklyn.
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Auburn, New York (AP)
The Cayuga Indian Nation is offering to permanently settle its cigarette tax dispute with two upstate New York counties.
During early July, the Appellate Division in Rochester reversed a state judge who blocked the sales at the LakeSide Trading stores...07-21-2009, 11:28 AM -
Auburn, New York (AP)
A state appeals court says the Cayuga Nation can continue selling untaxed cigarettes to non-Indians at its two upstate New York convenience stores.
The 3-1 decision released July 10 in Manhattan reverses an order by state Supreme Court Justice Kenneth...07-15-2009, 02:59 PM -
Seneca Falls, New York (AP)
A state judge for a second time refused Aug. 27 to order the return of 176,000 cartons of cigarettes seized last November during raids on the Cayuga Indian Nation’s two upstate New York convenience stores.
Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Fisher...09-09-2009, 12:16 PM -
By Carolyn Thompson
Buffalo, New York (AP)
A Seneca Nation businessman who is challenging new federal restrictions on mail-order cigarette sales called the seizure of a delivery truck containing thousands of cartons of his cigarettes “clear retaliation” for his lawsuit....08-17-2010, 06:03 PM