House Speaker Pat Grassley says House Republicans are wrestling with the governor’s proposal to raise the state tax on tobacco products and start assessing a 15 percent sales tax on vaping products. During a news conference on Thursday afternoon, he suggested it...
Governor Kim Reynold says she’ll keep pushing for an increase in Iowa’s tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products and a new 15% sales tax on vaping products. Her proposed tax hikes were included in a bill that failed in a Senate committee last week....
The governor’s call to raise state taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products and impose a new 15% sales tax on vaping products and consumable hemp products has narrowly failed in a Senate Committee. Republican Senator Kara Warme of Ames, chair of the Health...
Governor Kim Reynolds is proposing new taxes and tax hikes on smoking products that she says are a key factor in Iowa’s high rate of lung cancer. “National statistics say that 80% of lung cancer is caused by tobacco and when we’re looking at all the...
