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FOR OUR LOCAL SOUTH CAROLINA CUSTOMERS
Call to Action! South Carolina Bill to Tax E-Cigarettes And More -- H. 4074
If enacted, this bill would:
• Tax sales of e-cigarette products containing nicotine ("vapor products") at 5 cents per milliliter of liquid.
• Require e-cigarette retailers who import nicotine-containing products from other states to obtain a license to sell tobacco products and abide by lengthy regulations.
• Make it a criminal offense for consumers to buy an untaxed e-cigarettes online unless they file a tax return with the South Carolina Department of Revenue by the 20th of each month.
As recently exposed on the Daily Caller by Matthew Bandyk, bills like H. 4074 are a part of a concerted strategy by tobacco company R.J. Reynolds (RJR) to tax sales of electronic cigarettes. RJR has its lobbyist(s) out everyday in South Carolina campaigning for this tax, so a swift and heavy response is needed from South Carolina vapers to stop this bill!
If you may be able to testify against this bill when it gets a committee hearing in Columbia, South Carolina, please email us at
board@casaa.org. Please use the subject line "SC Testimony."
If you are from South Carolina, please also contact your representative and senator in the South Carolina Legislature and tell them that you're an e-cigarette user, you vote, and you don't want the unnecessary tax hike in H. 4074 to become law.
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Please contact the members of the South Carolina House Ways & Means Committee. Follow this link to learn who your representative is
CASAA: Call to Action! South Carolina Bill to Tax E-Cigarettes And More -- H. 4074
1. Please vote NO on H 4074, which would hike taxes on tens of thousands of South Carolina e-cigarette users and treat e-cigarettes like a tobacco product by requiring tobacco licenses.
2. Tell your story on how switching to an e-cigarette has changed your life.
3. Explain that H 4074's provision that claims to cap the "vapor product" tax at 10% the excise tax levied on cigarettes is legislative fiction. In fact, if H 4074 is passed, you could end up paying an additional $1.50 each time you purchase a 30 ml bottle of liquid.
4. Note that South Carolina citizens and businesses do not support new taxes and burdensome regulations. Further explain that imposing these laws on e-cigarette sales only serves to protect cigarette markets and will hurt small businesses in Oklahoma.
5. Explain that your biggest concern about this legislation is that it is a part of a demonstrated pattern by R.J. Reynolds to get bills introduced in state legislatures (including RI, NC, and OK) that seek to give the e-cigarette industry to large tobacco companies. The three major tobacco companies -- Philip Morris (PM), Reynolds, and Lorillard -- already have contracts with all licensed tobacco retailers for sales, prime display shelf space, discounts, advertisements and promotions -- while very few e-cigarette companies do.
6. Direct them to the CASAA.org website for more information.
Also there is a petition that needs signatures so our voices can be heard!
http://www.change.org/petitions/south-carolina-legislatures-not-pass-bill-h-4074-sc