cigarette tax

The owner of a southwest Missouri discount tobacco store has filed a lawsuit challenging a proposed constitutional amendment that would raise the state's lowest-in-the-nation tobacco tax and create new fees for wholesalers of some cigarettes.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A group of Missouri gas station and convenience store owners is backing taxing cigarettes an additional 23 cents per pack. The Missouri Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association announced it is filing two similar initiative petitions for the tax increase...

HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) — Attorney General Chris Koster is calling for Missouri to increase the state's cigarette tax and use the money for college scholarships. The Post-Dispatch that Koster presented the idea Saturday in Hannibal during the annual Democrat Days...