Tax Evasion And Illicit Cigarettes In California

From: Tax Professors Blog

By Paul Caron

 James E. Prieger (Pepperdine) & Jonathan Kulick (NYU), Tax Evasion and Illicit Cigarettes in California: Part I – Survey Evidence on Current Behavior:

Data from a novel online survey of 5,000 English-speaking adult cigarette smokers in California in advance of a recent increase in the state’s cigarette excise tax indicate that slightly more than one-quarter of that population engaged in some legal tax-avoiding behavior in the previous month, while nearly one-fifth illegally evaded taxes. (The two behaviors overlapped substantially.)

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