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...'s Smoke Shop, a smoke shop on the Poospatuck Indian Reservation on Long Island in the U.S. Dist...
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Firm tailors IP services for India
The law firm Hiscock & Barclay LLP announced it is offering new services tailored for Indian companies bringing products to market in the United States.
... ruling that temporarily bars smoke shops on Long Island's Poospatuck Indian reservation from sellin...
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... sales and excise taxes on fuel sold by Indian (1) reservation businesses to non-Indian buyers. (... on tribal sovereignty--breaching a longstanding treaty. (4) . The tension that arose in the summer... recognized, reservations lie in Long Island--the Poospatuck Indian Reservation and the Shinnec...
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The drive by West Virginia bar owners to protect their businesses from the smoking ban has taken a hit from the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., maker of Winston cigarettes.
Kerry "Paco" Ellison, owner of the Blackhawk Saloon in Charleston, took the double blow after resisting the ban for more than a year and becoming prominent statewide in the movement by bar owners.
... sales of tax-free cigarettes at the Poospatuck Indian Reservation on New York's Long Island. It m...
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NEW YORK - The big cigarette tax increases that many states are instituting to balance their out-of-whack budgets are raising fears that the trend will make black-market smokes more profitable and lead to more cigarette smuggling.
Cigarette smuggling has been going on for generations and already costs states untold billions in lost tax revenue.
... cartons and cartons of tax-free smokes on Indian reservations and sell them elsewhere. Buyers order...Places like New York's Poospatuck Indian Reservation have become major sources of co... away in a nondescript suburb on eastern Long Island, it is a 60-mile haul from New York City. B...
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... Department was aware of the Shinnecock of Long Island and held internal discussions as to whether... as the earliest complete list of reservation residents. The PF noted that this practice of usin... Nipmuc and two in the Unkechaug or Poospatuck groups. A total of ten current members claim enrol...
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State Sen. Craig Johnson, D-Elmont, may have had trouble getting the name of one local Indian tribe right, but he's probably more familiar with those working with another.
Johnson recently led a committee that recommended revoking state recognition of the Unkechaug Indian Nation, describing them as the Poospatuck, the reservation name often confused with the tribe.
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... cigarettes sold on Native American reservations when some or all of those cigarettes may be... BACKGROUND The Unkechauge Indian Nation has existed in New York State for hundreds of years. Its current lands lie in Mastic, Long Island, on the Poospatuck Reservation. The populat...
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New York state is raising its tax $1.25 to $2.75 a pack, the highest in the nation. New York City charges an added $1.50 a pack. By David B. Caruso
The Associated Press
... cartons and cartons of tax-free smokes on Indian reservations and sell them elsewhere. Buyers order...Places like New York's Poospatuck Indian Reservation have become major sources of co... away in a nondescript suburb on eastern Long Island, it is a 60-mile haul from New York City. B...
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A dispute between the state and the Poospatuck tribe escalated today, when a Senate committee recommended the state revoke its recognition of the tribe and increase efforts to collect cigarette taxes on Native American reservations.
The Senate Standing Committee on Investigations & Government Operations issued the report recommending the state increase efforts to collect taxes from sales of cigarettes on Native American reservations to non-Native Americans.
... state Constitution says agreements with Indian tribes that existed prior to this Constitution sha...