Get Ny Instructions Cg-213-i 2024-2025

New York State and New York City impose an excise tax on all cigarettes possessed in the state for sale. The state excise tax rate is $4.35 per package of 20 cigarettes.

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Returning resident travelers may import tobacco products only in quantities not exceeding the amounts specified in the personal exemptions for which the traveler qualifies (not more than 200 cigarettes and 100 cigars if arriving from other than a beneficiary country and insular possession).

All state tax stamps sold to stamping agents are now pink instead of yellow, and all joint state/New York City stamps sold to stamping agents are now lime green instead of pink. The Department traditionally changes the stamp color every two years with notice, but no such notice was issued this time, NYACS stated.

The tax is imposed at a rate of 75 cents for each ten cigarettes or fraction of a group of ten, or $1.50 for a standard pack of 20 cigarettes.

When a licensed vendor (e.g., manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler) has paid the state excise tax for tobacco products, they receive a stamp from the state to affix to the tobacco products in order to sell at retail. Essentially, tax stamps are evidence of the payment of tax.

The prepaid tax equals the base retail price of cigarettes, multiplied by the 8% prepaid sales tax rate. This is then rounded to the nearest cent for the pack of cigarettes. The base retail sales price, effective September 1, 2022, is $12.110 for a pack of 20 cigarettes and $3.025 for each additional five cigarettes.

Returning resident travelers may import tobacco products only in quantities not exceeding the amounts specified in the personal exemptions for which the traveler qualifies (not more than 200 cigarettes and 100 cigars if arriving from other than a beneficiary country and insular possession).