Connecticut Information
Tobacco Taxes
Connecticut's excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $1.510
Connecticut's excise tax collection for the
fiscal year ending June 2002: $151,324,000
Sales tax on tobacco products: 6.00%
Federal excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.39
Total federal excise tax collections in fiscal year 2002: $7,512,700,000
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Who Profits from
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Comparing Excise Taxes on Cigarettes, Beer and Wine
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Number of six-packs of beer that must be sold in Connecticut to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 101.7 |
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Number of bottles of wine that must be sold in Connecticut to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 93.4 |
Connecticut Smokers' Contributions
to the State Economy - 2002
Connecticut smokers comprise only 20.6%1 of the adult population in the state. Here is what they already pay because they choose to buy a legal product:
Smokers Pay Excise Taxes2 |
$ |
151,324,307 |
Smokers Pay Sales Taxes2 |
$ |
47,756,310 |
Smokers Pay Tobacco Settlement Payments3 |
$ |
132,845,595 |
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$ |
331,926,212 |
Smokers' Economic/Tax Profile
Connecticut smokers' median income 20011 |
$ |
42,635 |
Connecticut State Tax Liability for Median Income Smoker4 |
$ |
475 |
- Smoker Excise Tax/Sales Tax/Tobacco Settlement Payments Liability5
Total average paid per Connecticut smoker in excise and sales taxes |
$ |
376 |
Cost per Connecticut smoker for settlement payments to Connecticut |
$ |
251 |
Total annual payment to Connecticut per smoker |
$ |
627 |
Connecticut Smoker Facts6
- Total smokers' payments to Connecticut in FY2002 were:
- Seven times larger than state excise taxes on alcohol ($47.3 million) in FY2001.
- 75% as large as motor fuels tax revenues ($442.7 million) in FY2001.
- Larger than inheritance and estate tax collections ($252.8 million) FY2001.
- Smokers' payments in FY2002 were more than enough to provide for FY2002 estimated general fund expenditures for:
- The Department of Public Health ($76.6 million) AND
- Connecticut Pharmaceutical Assistance for the Elderly ($42.9 million) AND
- Aid to the Disabled ($57 million) AND
- The Community and Technical College System ($121.5 million)
OR
- Foster Care ($75.2 million) AND
- The Department of Environmental Protection ($39.4 million) AND
- The University of Connecticut ($186.3 million)
- In 1997, smokers provided 7,353 jobs that paid an additional $10.1 million to the state in personal and corporate income taxes.7
TOTAL SMOKER CIGARETTE PAYMENTS TO CONNECTICUT |
Per year: |
$ |
331,926,212 |
Per day: |
$ |
908,764 |
Per hour: |
$ |
37,865 |
Per minute: |
$ |
631 |
Per second: |
$ |
11 |
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CIGARETTES DON'T PAY TAXES -
CONNECTICUT SMOKERS DO!!
1 Centers for Disease Control's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2001
2 Orzechowski & Walker, Arlington, Virginia; from state revenue department
3 PriceWaterhouseCooper
4 State annual income tax liability from PayBreeze software of General Programming, Inc., San Jose, California, which utilizes the Exact Calculation Method.
5 U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 state population and Centers for Disease Control's Behavioral Risk Surveillance System, 2001
6 Tax and Budget Comparisons are from the U.S. Census Bureau, and the State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management, Budget and Financial Management Division, FY2002-2003 Economic Report of the Governor and Governor's Midterm Budget Adjustments. Both CT reports are available online at http://www.opm.state.ct.us/budget/2003MidTerm/MidTermHome.htm.
7American Economics Group, Inc., The U.S. Tobacco Industry in 1997: Its Economic Impact in the States.
Master Settlement Agreement Payments To Date
$432,931,432 has been paid to Connecticut since the Master Settlement Agreement was signed on November 23, 1998.
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The reprinting of this information from the Coalition, does not constitute a representation or admission by RJRT that such information is accurate, complete, or a proper characterization of the laws concerned. The Coalition for Responsible Tobacco Retailing is a cooperative effort among retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers who share a common goal: to do all they can to prevent tobacco sales to minors.
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