A federal judge in 2018 struck down the law, known asciting the unconstitutionality of a provision that would have prevented companies from passing on the surcharge to customers in New York.
In its ruling Monday, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision, finding the payments are a legal tax that New York can collect. The court didn’t reach a conclusion on whether the tax could be passed on to customers, because New York didn’t appeal that issue and has since created a new tax without that provision that captures sales from 2019 onward.
The original New York law planned to collect $100 million a year for six years starting in 2017, with the amounts owed by each company decided by market share. Monday’s decision clears the way for the 2017 and 2018 payments to be imposed.
Finally some good news
Looks like the 8.4 million dollars they give per person in the house of representatives and the Senate is going to take a hit... Lobbing, it is what's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
bubkis
That’s a win for Trump administration. Opiod addiction kills people and more so our children’s
Won't the higher cost force people to get illegal opioids on the street? Like the bathtub gin problem that killed so many people
Who will pay for this tax on current sales?
What about the prescribers?
This is something I can get behind. I may lean conservative but I'm not heartless.