SHB 2493 -
By Representatives Hunter, Santos
ADOPTED 03/19/2010
On page 7, after line 4, strike all of subsection (1)(c) and insert
the following:
"(c) For moist snuff, as established in this subsection (1)(c) and
computed on the net weight listed by the manufacturer:
(i) On each single unit consumer-sized can or package whose net
weight is one and two-tenths ounces or less, a rate per single unit
that is equal to the greater of 2.526 dollars or eighty-three and one-half percent of the cigarette tax under chapter 82.24 RCW multiplied by
twenty; or
(ii) On each single unit consumer-sized can or package whose net
weight is more than one and two-tenths ounces, a proportionate tax at
the rate established in (c)(i) of this subsection (1) on each ounce or
fractional part of an ounce; and"
EFFECT: Changes the tax rate on moist snuff by eliminating an ad valorem component. Specifies that the tax rate on moist snuff is the greater of $2.526 or 83.5 percent of the per pack cigarette tax rate.