New York state lawsuit claims UPS shipped untaxed cigarettes

[charles d]

Source: AP

Feb. 18, 2015 12:20 PM EST

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York authorities have accused United Parcel Service in a federal lawsuit of shipping 700,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes in the state between 2010 and 2014 despite an earlier agreement to stop.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and New York City Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter are seeking $180 million from Atlanta-based UPS, saying the cheap cigarettes increased smoking by New Yorkers while also costing $29.7 million in lost tax revenue.

The lawsuit claims UPS shipped unstamped cigarettes from at least six unlicensed vendors on Indian reservations.

UPS denies it knowingly shipped cigarettes, saying it agreed in 2005 to stop delivering cigarettes to consumers nationwide.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6f7f8460c26c47fb8e4931526265ca1b/new-york-state-lawsuit-claims-ups-shipped-untaxed

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So, will NYPD officers be choking UPS employees to death now?

[notadmblnd]

1. Shouldn't the AG send the cops to choke the board members of UPS to death?

That's what happened to the last guy that was accused of not paying taxes on cigarettes.

[rurallib]

2. bet everyone who reads this here will have that same thought.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

5. They sure do!

[Travis_0004]

3. maybe if they lowered the taxes the smuggling would decrease.

[christx30]

6. Agreed.

People don't want to pay $12 for a pack of smokes.

[HockeyMom]

7. $20 for TWO CARTONS

Shinnecock Reservation in Shirley, Long Island. Native brand loose in bags. Lines of cars to get in there. Sovereign Nation.

[christx30]

8. I don't even live in New York (Texas here),

but I followed a lot of it after the Eric Garner case. Looked at the cigarette smuggling information, and I agree. I don't blame people for smuggling cigarettes. The state wants to make money off the backs of smokers. They also want to reduce smoking.

[Reter]

4. UPS are my heroes

Bravo to them.

[liberalhistorian]

9. WTF is this obsession

NY state has with untaxed cigarettes? So much so that they apparently kill for it.