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New Hampshire Prison Commissary Surcharge Ruled an Illegal Tax
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2004
by John E Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2004, page 22
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Class Certification,
Money/Property,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds,
Tax Law.
Location:
New Hampshire.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court
held that state law RSA 622:7-b, which imposed a 5% surcharge on the price of all commissary sales, amounted to a disproportionate tax in violation of the New Hampshire Constitution. The 1999 law, whose beneficiary for the first $750,000 collected was ...
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