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Monday, December 30, 2002
No Happy New Year if you Plan to buy Cigarettes, Alcohol or Property in the District Cigarette taxes will rise 35 cents to $1 a pack, and the recording of property deeds will rise from 1.1 percent of the purchase value to 1.5 percent. That could cost some homebuyers thousands of dollars. Also, wholesale liquor taxes will rise from 8 percent to 9 percent, and public utility taxes for gas and electricity will climb from 10 percent to 11 percent. New Year Rings In At Cash Register
DC Metro Action is published by Michael Schlesinger, a 32-year veteran of electoral and issue organizing who is committed to social justice and to increasing participation in the political process.
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