A New Jersey man is going to have to cough up $10,426.11 for buying smokes online without paying the appropriate taxes.
Craig Mathews, 57, quit smoking last April, but not before he'd racking up the $10K over the years, says Newsday, going on that another NJ resident, Tim Nolan, 52, "received a sales tax bill from the state for $4,115.28 for the Pall Mall cigarettes he purchased online from July 2003 to March 2005".
Both men claimed they'd bought the cigarettes on the Net to save money, "and didn't know that they had to pay sales tax to the state of New Jersey," according to the story.
State Treasury Department sxpokesman Tom Vincz is quoted as saying New Jersey collects about $4 million a year from sales tax on out-of-state cigarettes.
Also See: Newsday - $10,426 tax bill for smoker who bought cigs over Internet, February 4, 2007
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