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N.C. ranks 45th in cigarette tax

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:24:58 -0400

North Carolina has the sixth-lowest cigarette tax.

According to research by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, an anti-smoking advocacy group, only five states have lower cigarette taxes: Florida, Virginia, Mississippi, Missouri and South Carolina.

Tax expert: Ken., La., Ark., but not W. Va.

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:08:32 -0400

Verenda Smith says Kentucky, Louisiana and Arkansas are in the Southeast, but not West Virginia.

The interim director of the Federation of Tax Administrators says she would use climate, history and economy to define the region. She says Southeastern states have muggy weather, often border the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean and were in the Confederacy.

Another definition of Southeastern

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:07:59 -0400

Who needs the federal government? We've got football.

Though the U.S. Census Bureau does not define the Southeastern region in its reports, another major — more important? — agency does: The Southeastern Conference.

State tax burdens in the Southeast

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:37:24 -0400

North Carolina has a higher tax burden than most Southeastern states.

But it has not been ranked the highest among the dozen states considered to be part of the Southeast by the Tax Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit.

Using as its guide the states considered Southeastern by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the foundation has ranked North Carolina between the fourth and second Southeast states in terms of tax burden since 1977.

The definition of Southeast

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:02:57 -0400

How do you define the Southeast?

We here at Dome headquarters have been poring over some tax data this morning as part of a fact-check, and we came across this interesting epistemological problem.

The general consensus of our group of reporters was that it includes the following states: