Have you ever wondered why gas, cigarettes or alcohol cost so much? The answer often comes down to an excise tax — a special tax that’s built right into the price of certain goods. So, what is excise ...

Excise taxes are a tax charged on specific goods or services produced and sold domestically. As a small business owner, it is important to understand how an existing or potential excise tax will ...

TRUE: Health care legislation imposed a 2.3% excise tax on the sale of medical devices as of 1 January 2013. TRUE: The Cabela's chain (and some other stores) mistakenly applied medical excise taxes to ...

As health coverage expands to tens of millions of Americans--through Medicaid expansion in states and the new state health insurance exchanges that will soon begin selling individual health ...