Delaware Information
Tobacco Taxes
Delaware's excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.550
Delaware's excise tax collection for the
fiscal year ending June 2002: $27,219,000
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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Comparing Excise Taxes on Cigarettes, Beer and Wine
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Number of six-packs of beer that must be sold in Delaware to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 27.4 |
Number of bottles of wine that must be sold in Delaware to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 12.5
Delaware Smokers' Contributions
to the State Economy - FY2002
In 2001, Delaware smokers comprised only 25%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 |
$ |
27,218,880 |
Smokers Pay Tobacco Settlement Payments3 |
$ |
28,298,046 |
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$ |
55,516,926 |
Smokers' Economic/Tax Profile 2001
Delaware smokers' median household income |
$ |
38,768 |
Delaware nonsmokers' median household income |
$ |
52,432 |
- Working Families Pay More1
28.6% of DE smokers had household income LESS than $25,000
19% of DE smokers had household income EQUAL to or GREATER THAN $75,000
The impact of smoker payments on the incomes of working families was more than THREE TIMES the impact on higher income smokers. Those who can afford it least pay a disproportionate percentage of their hard-earned income in smoker payments.
- Smoker excise tax/tobacco settlement payments liability in 20024
Total average paid per Delaware smoker in excise taxes |
$ |
185 |
Cost per Delaware smoker for settlement payments to Delaware |
$ |
192 |
Total annual payment to Delaware per smoker |
$ |
377 |
Total annual payment to Delaware per nonsmoker |
$ |
0 |
Delaware Smoker Facts 5
- Smokers' payments to Delaware in FY2002 were:
- Nearly five times as large as FY2001 state excise taxes on alcoholic beverages ($11.6 million).
- Larger than FY2001 death and gift tax collections ($41.8 million).
- Nearly equal to estimated net corporate income tax receipts for FY2002 ($52.5 million).
- The total amount paid by Delaware smokers in FY2002 would cover the budgeted costs for FY2002 state expenditures on:
- Hospice for the Chronically Ill ($32.5 million) AND Community Mental Health ($19.8 million) COMBINED
OR
- Child Support Enforcement ($19.8 million) AND programs for the Aging and Adults with Disabilities ($18.2 million) COMBINED
OR
- The State Police's Criminal Investigation, Special Investigation, and Patrol units COMBINED ($39.7 million).
TOTAL SMOKER CIGARETTE PAYMENTS TO DELAWARE IN FY2002 |
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Per year: |
$ |
55,516,926 |
Per day: |
$ |
151,997 |
Per hour: |
$ |
6,333 |
Per minute: |
$ |
106 |
Per second: |
$ |
1.76 |
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CIGARETTES DON'T PAY TAXES -
DELAWARE 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 U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 state population and Centers for Disease Control's Behavioral Risk Surveillance System, 2001
5 5 State of Delaware, Office of the Budget, Fiscal Year 2003 Governor's Recommended Operating and Capital Budget Information, Financial Overview. Online at http://www.state.de.us/budget/fy2003/op_fin_ov.pdf and State of Delaware, Office of the Budget, Fiscal Year 2003 Governor's Recommended Operating and Capital Budget Information. Online at http://www.state.de.us/budget/fy2003/2003-contents.html.
Master Settlement Agreement Payments To Date
$92,220,297 has been paid to Delaware 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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