From: CSPnet.com
Stop-sale orders, tribal sales and social sources take center stage
By Melissa Vonder Haar, Tobacco Editor, CSP
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2. Tribal Tobacco Compliance
New York Association of Convenience Stores (NYACS) president Jim Calvin expressed immense frustration with the hypocrisy of inspecting and penalizing mainstream retailers while retailers on Indian reservations operate without any oversight, often not collecting any excise taxes and failing to check IDs.
“We’re doing the best that we can to start a tribal inspection program, but it’s slow,” Zeller admitted. “We have our first contracts in place for reservation tobacco compliance. It’s taken a lot of time.”
