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HF 733Died when the session ended · March 3, 2021

Relating to cigarettes and tobacco products, including increased taxation of such products

Topics:Taxes

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedMarch 3, 2021
  2. Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
  3. Next: House committee
  4. Next: Passes the House
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary People who buy cigarettes, cigars, and other tobacco products will pay higher taxes under this law. The cost of a pack of cigarettes would go up by 50 cents, and the tax on other tobacco items would increase to 55.6 percent of their wholesale price. Additionally, the previous limit on how much tax could be charged for each cigar would be removed.1

Read the official explanation

This bill relates to the taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products.86 on a pack of cigarettes.86 per pack of cigarettes. The bill increases the tax on cigarettes assembled using loose tobacco products that are inserted into a vending machine from which assembled cigarettes are dispensed from three and six-hundredths cents to three and five-tenths cents, which increases the tax on these items in an amount, based on the weight of tobacco used for each cigarette, which is in proportion to the increase in the tax on packaged cigarettes. 6 percent of the wholesale sales price. The bill eliminates the cap on the tax for cigars which was cents per cigar.

Full bill text2

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§453A.43§453A.6

How the Code works3

Lobbying

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

  • HF 364 Relating to cigarettes and tobacco products, including increased taxation of such products
    88th General Assembly · In committee · very similar
    Cleared committee

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