PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Oregonians shook off a $12 million advertising blitz by tobacco companies and tax opponents and turned down an 85-cent-a-pack cigarette tax hike Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A plan to hike the tax rate on the massive earnings of U.S. private-equity firms likely will be delayed by the U.S. Congress until after 2008.
SACRAMENTO, July 24 (UPI) -- California voters decide in November whether to triple the state's cigarette tax, making it the highest in the country.
BERLIN, June 16 (UPI) -- The German lower house of parliament Thursday agreed for the biggest tax hike in the country's democrat history, a move experts say will hurt consumer spending.
NEW YORK, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A New York Times/CBS News poll suggests Americans might OK a gasoline tax hike if it reduced global warming or lessened U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Three cigarette manufacturers have gone to court in an attempt to roll back Minnesota's 75-cent-a-pack hike in taxes.
RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- North Carolina's tax on cigarettes will rise 5 cents a pack to 35 cents a pack by next July, under to an agreement reached by legislators.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Supporters of a $1-a-pack hike in Minnesota's state cigarette tax say they will prevail despite opposition from the tobacco industry, retailers and smokers.
TOKYO, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Japan's finance minister said Thursday that raising the country's consumption tax would be the fairest way to pay for social welfare.
TOKYO, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi predicted a hike in the country's 5 percent consumption tax but promised it won't happen during his term.
