The Hebron woman is doing a slow burn over a $300 bill she received from the state. It was for uncollected cigarette taxes on 24 cartons of cigarettes she purchased from out of state. She is one of 5,469 Ohioans who received bills from the state Department of Taxation last month totaling $2.15 million in uncollected cigarette taxes. In Franklin County, 399 people were billed $143,613 on 11,489 cartons of cigarettes.
“I made a phone call. Then I would give them my credit-card number to charge it to and that would be it,” Kochalko explained of her purchase from a company in New York. The Taxation Department requested the names of Ohioans who purchased cigarettes from five vendors between July 2007 and March. That’s not fair to smokers and business owners who follow the rules and pay taxes on their cigarettes, said John Kohlstrand, a Taxation Department spokesman. More
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