During months of debate by congressional Democrats over the Build Back Better Act that contains much of President Biden’s “social infrastructure” plan and the funding to pay for it, a proposal to tax cigarettes and other nicotine products was included in the bill, then removed, then finally added back without the cigarette tax.
The current version of the nicotine tax applies only to vaping products and nicotine pouches, and they will be taxed at a higher rate than cigarettes if the tax language stays in the bill and it passes.
House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth reinserted the nicotine tax (minus the doubled federal cigarette tax) during markup of the current House version of the $1.75 trillion bill.
Jim McDonald – Vaping360 – 2021-11-11.
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