Minnesota beer drinkers escape proposed 600% excise tax increase
Cigarette smokers would pay an additional $1.60 a pack in state taxes under the DFL plan. That would boost the tax to $2.83 per pack and raise an estimated $430 million over the next two years. Taxes on cigars and chewing tobacco also would go up. But drinkers would escape a tax increase. The leaders agreed not to raise beer, wine and liquor taxes, as House DFLers had proposed.
via TwinCities.com.
