Nebraska is the latest state to send out taxation notices to smokers.

According to the Beatrice Daily Sun the state of Nebraska has sent letters to more than 500 residents telling them they owe taxes for cigarettes they bought through the mail or over the Internet.

Cleo Bell of Adams doesn't think the state cigarette tax is a fair tax. Bell said he's hoping to file a class-action suit against the tax, and he said the state collection efforts were unfair to smokers. Nebraska doesn't go to such lengths to collect the sales tax owed by people who buy other products through the mail, he said. Federal law requires those who sell and ship cigarettes into states to report those sales to the states. But there's no such requirement for other sales, so states don't have the same database for such collection efforts, State tax commissioner Doug Ewald said.
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