Rhode Island Information
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Tobacco Taxes
Rhode Island's excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $1.710
Rhode Island's excise tax collection for the
fiscal year ending June 2002: $79,064,000
Sales tax on tobacco products: 7.00%
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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Comparing Excise Taxes on Cigarettes, Beer and Wine
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Number of six-packs of beer that must be sold in Rhode Island to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 241.9 |
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Number of bottles of wine that must be sold in Rhode Island to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 111 |
Rhode Island Smokers' Contributions
to the State Economy - FY2003
In 2002, Rhode Island smokers comprised only 22.5%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 |
$ |
94,002,000 |
Smokers Pay Sales Taxes2 |
$ |
22,076,000 |
Smokers Pay Tobacco Settlement Payments3 |
$ |
52,439,000 |
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$ |
168,517,000 |
Smokers' Economic/Tax Profile 2002
Rhode Island smokers' median household income |
$ |
37,343 |
Rhode Island nonsmokers' median household income |
$ |
47,121 |
- Working Families Pay More1
32% of Rhode Island smokers had household income LESS THAN $25,000
16% of Rhode Island 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/sales tax/tobacco settlement payments liability in 20024
Total average paid per Rhode Island smoker in excise and sales taxes |
$ |
644 |
Cost per Rhode Island smoker for settlement payments to RI |
$ |
291 |
Total annual payments to Rhode Island per smoker |
$ |
935 |
Total annual payments to Rhode Island per nonsmoker |
$ |
0 |
Rhode Island Smoker Facts 5
- Rhode Island FY2003 smoker payments of $168.5 million were:
- Sixteen times as large as FY2003 state excise tax collections on alcoholic beverages of $10.1 million.
- More than twice as large as FY2003 business corporation revenues ($63.8 million).
- Nearly seven times as large as Rhode Island FY2003 inheritance and gift tax revenues ($24.3 million).
- Rhode Island FY2003 smoker taxes supplied enough dollars to support spending (all funds) on:
- Elderly Affairs ($42.6 million) -AND- Health ($102.1 million) COMBINED
-OR-
- State Police ($42.2 million) -AND- Environmental Management ($57.4 million) COMBINED
-OR-
- Corrections ($142.7 million).
TOTAL SMOKER CIGARETTE PAYMENTS TO RHODE ISLAND
FY2003 |
Per year: |
$ |
168,517,000 |
Per day: |
$ |
461,374 |
Per hour: |
$ |
19,224 |
Per minute: |
$ |
320 |
Per second: |
$ |
5 |
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CIGARETTES DON'T PAY TAXES -
RHODE ISLAND SMOKERS DO!!
1 Centers for Disease Control's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2002
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, 2002
5 Tax and Budget comparisons are from the Rhode Island State Budget Office, Fiscal Year 2005 Operating Budget, online at http://www.budget.state.ri.us/05operating.htm. Non-cigarette tax revenue numbers for FY2003 are preliminary. Budget numbers for FY2003 are unaudited.
Master Settlement Agreement Payments To Date
$170,180,034 has been paid to Rhode Island since the Master Settlement Agreement was signed on November 23, 1998.
Rhode Island Tobacco Laws
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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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