{"id":39841,"date":"2026-02-05T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=39841"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:44:10","slug":"excise-tax-on-remote-cigar-sales-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=39841","title":{"rendered":"Excise tax on remote cigar sales approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Feb. 5 intended to help Nebraska cigar shops compete with online retailers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37100\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37100\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37100\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenWordekemper_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communication&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Dan McKeon, District 41. Legislature - 2025 Incoming Senators. November 20, 2024. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1729275105&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2019, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;135&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mark Wilkins Lab&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenWordekemper_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dave Wordekemper&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dave Wordekemper&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenWordekemper_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37100\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenWordekemper_inline.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Dave Wordekemper\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dave Wordekemper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The state excise tax on cigars currently is 20% of the purchase price paid by the first owner or the price at which the first owner who made the products sells them to others.<\/p>\n<p>LB212, introduced last session by Fremont Sen. Dave Wordekemper, requires remote retail sellers to collect and remit the 20% excise tax on products sold directly to Nebraska consumers if they meet certain sales thresholds.<\/p>\n<p>The requirement applies to \u201ccovered tobacco products\u201d \u2014 like cigars and pipe tobacco \u2014 but not snuff, chewing tobacco or electronic nicotine delivery systems.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also requires remote retailers of covered tobacco products to apply for a license from the state tax commissioner. License holders must submit monthly tax returns and keep accurate sales records.<\/p>\n<p>The new requirements take effect Jan. 1, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>LB212 passed on a vote of 49-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Feb. 5 intended to help Nebraska cigar shops compete with online retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-39841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-revenue","tag-sen-dave-wordekemper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39843,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39841\/revisions\/39843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}