Connecticut's cigarette taxes
Richmond partner Bryan Haynes was quoted in a April 13 Hartford Courant article about Connecticut’s state Department of Revenue banking on the passage of bill that would allow the agency to collect fees and cigarette taxes it is losing due to the proliferation of a dozen roll-your-own tobacco shops around the state.
“The Department of Revenue Services, having lost in court, is trying to accomplish in the legislature what they could not accomplish in court,” Haynes said, who represents RYO Machine LLC, the manufacturer of the machines in question.