Middlesex, Urbanna OK new 40-cents a pack tax on cigarette purchases

July 14, 2021

By Southside Sentinel

by Tom Chillemi

If by chance you were looking for yet another reason to kick the habit, here’s one: Middlesex County and the Town of Urbanna are now levying a new 40 cents a pack tax on cigarettes. The tax took effect last week.

Middlesex County and Urbanna are now each part of the Chesapeake Bay Region Cigarette Tax Board and each jurisdiction has levied a 40-cents tax on each pack of 20 cigarettes.

The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors made it official on July 6 and the Urbanna Town Council voted to approve the measure on July 8. Urbanna will be separate and receive the tax collected in town, while the county will collect the tax outside of Urbanna’s border.

Both bodies conducted public hearings before….

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