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Article: Tax Stamps, Drug Deals Don't Stick.
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- Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
- Article date:
- July 7, 2006
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Byline: William Weir
Jul. 7--The state Department of Revenue Services is on the brink of a milestone: selling its 200th drug tax stamp - those small stickers that illegal drug dealers need to stay in the good graces of state tax officials. Since the state passed the "grass tax" act ("All illicit drugs must have Connecticut tax stamps permanently affixed," it reads in part) the stamps haven't flown out the door. It's taken 15 years to sell the first 199, including one last week to The Courant. Of those, all but two have been of the $10 marijuana stamps. The state has sold one $200 stamp and another for $500. As far as anyone knows, none has been sold to ...