I would like to mail my sister cigarettes once in a while because they are so expensive in mass where she lives. I want to know if this would be legal for me to do.
can I legally mail cigarettes from no tax nh to my sister who lives in mass?
I would like to mail my sister cigarettes once in a while because they are so expensive in mass where she lives. I want to know if this would be legal for me to do.
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August 9th, 2010 at 1:03 am
No, it would not be legal.
She can certainly purchase cigs in NH and take them home, but you can’t ship them to her.
August 11th, 2010 at 6:02 am
Not unless she reports it and pays taxes on it.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
That would be ILLEGAL. Also as to her going and buying them in NH it would be limited how much she could buy before the law comes up. She may be able to buy like a pack or two while she was there, but not much. What she COULD do is buy them and take them back THEN pay the Mass tax, if you want to talk about LEGALLY. You do have to declare it just like customs.
August 14th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Yes, as federal regulations control the USPS, which supersedes state government regulations. Just as how marijuana cannot be shipped USPS between 2 California pot regulated areas via USPS, cigarettes can, as long as they are US in origin and their federal tax has been paid on one end. They CANNOT, however, be trafficked by a person across state-lines without fear of same repurcussion.