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Should a electronic smoking from a major company be subject to taxes the same as a electronic smoking combined instantly at a convenience store?
That was the question before the House Finance and Tax Panel Thursday as they heard a long debate that has rough business owners who have capitalized on a loophole in the state’s smoking cigarettes tax against Big Cigarettes.
The board identified as all to support the bill, by Rep. Robert Horner, R-Kissimmee, which would modify the definition of electronic smoking company and encourage the same state and federal tax on cigarettes combined by automated machines beginning in 2014.
“This do not exist three years ago,’’ Horner told the board. “They do not come out with a better mousetrap. It’s a tax avoid.”
