HR 154 · 101th Congress · Taxation
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the excise tax on smokeless tobacco, and for other purposes.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.(1989-01-03)
Plain Language Summary
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Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax on smokeless tobacco from: (1) 24 cents to $1.20 per pound for snuff; and (2) eight cents to 40 cents per pound for chewing tobacco. Establishes in the Treasury the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Trust Fund, to be available to finance research by the National Cancer Institute on cancer and other lung diseases related to tobacco products. Appropriates to the Trust Fund amounts equal to the revenue raised by the excise tax imposed on smokeless tobacco.…
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