Source: TOBACCO REPORTER, 12/10/21


A proposal to impose U.S. federal taxes on vaping has been removed from the Democrats’ healthcare, education and climate change bill, reports The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, a Finance Committee member in a tough re-election race, reportedly pushed to remove the tax and helped force its deletion. The removed provision would have levied a tax on vaping products designed to parallel the existing federal cigarette tax rate of $1.01 per pack.

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