Video: Gotham Fights Fraud

July 14, 2011
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Video – Gotham brought heavy hitters to the fraud fight. New Yorkers Stand Against Insurance Fraud mobilized legislators and county executives to fix our insurance system.

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State Sen Greg Ball, Westchester County Exec. Robert Astorino Join Fraud Fight

May 29, 2011
NYSAIF Presser Greg Ball Robert Astorino, Rafe Lieber

New York State Senator Greg Ball and Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino join the fight to stop auto insurance fraud at the Peekskill, New York DMV. This criminal enterprise costs New York Drivers millions of dollars

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Smoked Out: State, Federal Legislation Target New York Tobacco Consumers

June 28, 2010
Federal State Cig Laws

Dramatic changes are on the horizon for New York tobacco consumers. Federal legislation has not only increased the federal tax on cigarettes, but has limited cigarette distribution. Proposed New York State legislation increases the tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products to an unprecedented level. Governor David Paterson’s emergency legislation proposes to reinstate New York’s regulatory scheme to tax cigarettes sold to non-Indians by Indian retailers on reservation land. A recent New York Court of Appeals decision provides guidance to New York legislators and regulators who may be tasked with crafting these delicate yet powerful regulations.

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New York Tobacconists Speak Out Against Increased OTP Tax

June 19, 2010
Small Business Fights Back

New York Tobacconists Association gathered to speak out against an increased state OTP tax that would put them out of business and would lose money for the state. Shot at De La Concha in Manhattan by the European Cigar Journal.

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New York Governor Eyes Emergency Cigarette Tax

June 16, 2010
Governor David Paterson

The New York Post reports this morning that Governor Paterson may include a $1-a-pack tax hike on cigarettes in his next round of emergency spending legislation.

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Senate Report: Why New York Fails to Collect Cigarette Taxes on Native American Reservations

June 12, 2010
New York State Senate

New York State faces a $9 billion shortfall while failing to collect taxes on the billions of dollars worth of cigarettes sold by Native American reservations. Why? Read the report by the New York Standing Committee on Investigations and Government Operations

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Cigar Lovers Fumed Over New Tax

June 9, 2010
Cigar Rights

With a proposal for increased cigarette tax on the table, tobacco enthusiasts in New York are protesting, saying the government is getting too meddlesome and that it would severely hurt businesses.

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Proposed NY Tax Claims First Small Business Victim

June 4, 2010
Uptown cigar Company Leaves New York

Uptown Cigar Company, of Kingston, New York, is leaving town. After 14 years in its present location, owner Michelle Tuchman has decided to move the company down to Florida. The New York location will close on June 30, 2010, and the operation will begin in Florida on July 1, 2010.

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Do New York Businesses Need Any More Hardship?

June 4, 2010
Closed For Business

Take a look at what business owners told Newsday about how New York’s proposed tobacco tax increase will destroy small businesses in our state. Many of these shops are struggling, with some seeing a 30 percent drop in sales following last year’s tax increase on non-cigarette tobacco products, from 37 percent to 46 percent. “If we are going to go out of business, they are going to collect zero.”

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How American Cancer Society Uses Your Money

June 2, 2010
How American Cancer Society Uses Your Money

I want to point out some of the more nauseating facts about this billion dollar organization that should make everyone’s blood boil – especially those whom have somehow been touched by this insidious disease called cancer.
ACS has been part and parcel of the destruction of wonderful small businesses, including the shutting down of thousands of bodegas over the past decade. It seems like their only success is to lobby for higher tobacco taxes which have put our wonderful New York businesses out of business and have led to an illegal cigarette and cigar market that are making the criminals very rich and honest hardworking New Yorkers very poor and out of business.

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New York State Tobacconists Association Makes First Trip to Albany

May 11, 2010
New York State Capitol

The New York State Tobacconists Association made its first trip to Albany today, to pursue a multitude of issues. There, lobbying on behalf of the NYSTA, was Gotham Government Relations. At the forefront of the day’s activity was lobbying against the 90% Other Tobacco Product Tax proposed by Governor Paterson on the tobacco industry.

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