Cigarettes Tax Increases In N.H. At Midnight
CONCORD, N.H. (WBZ) ― The cigarette tax in New Hampshire will go up 25 cents at midnight, increasing the tax to $1.33 a pack.
Legislators voted in the spring to leave the tax at $1.08 a pack until the end of September, but to raise it on October 1 — Wednesday — if the tax did not bring in $50 million in three months.
Peter Boisvert of the state revenue department said as of Tuesday afternoon, revenues were a little over $2 million short of that figure.
Even with the increase to $1.33 a pack, New Hampshire’s tax is lower than those in surrounding states.
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