Kentucky’s New Vape Taxes are some of the Highest in the Country
As legislators wrapped up the 2020 session this week, they passed multiple new taxes on vapor products in the final revenue package. Pegasus Institute has consistently opposed taxes on vape products for the wide ranging negative effects of any tax increase on these products, but the new $1.50 per cartridge tax puts Kentucky in a uniquely bad position. To understand the impact of these taxes, we must first break down the ways in which the legislature decided to tax different v