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Big Court Defeat For Marijuana Despite Record Tax Harvests

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 07/14/2015 - 08:45

Should marijuana businesses pay tax on gross profits or net profits? It sounds like a silly question. Virtually every business in every country pays tax only on net profits, after expenses. But the topsy-turvy rules for marijuana seem to defy logic. And taxes are clearly a big topic these days under both federal and burgeoning state law.

Many observers and legislators suggested that legalizing marijuana would mean huge tax revenues. With legalized medical marijuana now giving way to more and more states legalizing recreational use, the cash hauls look ever more alluring. Washington state regulators say the state collected $65 million in first-year taxes from recreational marijuana sales in just 12 months on cannabis sales of over $260 million from June 2014 to June 2015. In Colorado, the governor’s office estimated that it would collect $100 million in taxes from the first year of recreational marijuana.

In the end, Colorado’s 2014 tax haul for...

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/07/13/big-court-defeat-for-marijuana-despite-record-tax-harvests/

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