Some Indian retailers in New York are offering tax-free candy products on their websites.

Smokes-Sprits.Com, based on the Seneca Nation, offers a wide range of candy bars, chewing gum and other sweet products. The site doesn't charge the 4 percent state sales tax or the local taxes that many jurisdictions impose on top of the state tax.

"We think this is a pretty troubling development," Michael Rosen of the Food Industry Alliance of New York State, which opposes tax-free sales in Indian Country, told The Albany Times-Union.

Indian retailers in New York have long offered tobacco products online but the new Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act, which goes into effect June 29, bars the U.S. Postal Service from delivering cigarettes and certain tobacco products.

Get the Story:
Too sweet a tax ploy? (The Albany Times-Union 6/21)

Relevant Documents:
ATF Letter on Tribal Consultation (May 19, 2010)

Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act.
H.R.1676 | S.1147

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