{"id":409,"date":"2009-01-14T07:36:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T13:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/2009\/01\/14\/2009-schip-bill-introduced-52-cigar-tax-per-cigar\/"},"modified":"2009-01-14T07:57:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T13:57:53","slug":"2009-schip-bill-introduced-52-cigar-tax-per-cigar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"2009 SCHIP Bill Introduced: $.52 cigar tax per cigar."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtda.org\/legislation.html\">IPCPR<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;HR2 Looks to Move Smoothly Through House, Slower in Senate<\/p>\n<p>Congress has introduced the reauthorization of the SCHIP bill&#8211;HR2. The cigar tax proposal is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>52.4 percent on large cigars (most premium cigars follow under this federal classification) with a cap of no more than 40 (forty) cents per cigar. This is far lower than the original proposal from the Senate of $10 per cigar and $3 proposed by the House.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a long, tough fight for all of us, and considering we are still being hit with a tax increase on cigars, our industry feels the proposed 40-cent maximum (cap) is sustainable and certainly better than the original proposals.<\/p>\n<p>We expect HR2 to move smoothly through Congress and will not face defeating opposition. As more news develops we will continue to keep you informed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I fully expect this bill to pass and we may need to count our lucky stars it wasn&#8217;t $3 per cigar.  The specualtion up to this was a much higher tax but thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtda.org\/legislation.html\">IPCPR <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cigarrights.org\/\">CRA(Cigar Rights of America)<\/a> there has been a compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From IPCPR: &#8220;HR2 Looks to Move Smoothly Through House, Slower in Senate Congress has introduced the reauthorization of the SCHIP<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=409\"> [Read the full story &#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[155],"tags":[156,276,157,163,275],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cigar-industry-news","tag-cigar-rights-of-america","tag-cigar-tax","tag-cra","tag-schip-bill","tag-schip-tax"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p16MGD-6B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}