The Shuster Project

Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues

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To The Mayor(s) and Citizens of Naugatuck and throughout the state of Ct., 

Anyone signing this petition states that this discriminatory tax increase must immediately be rescinded. 

Since May,1999, when The Shuster Project went online, we have presented in great detail how CT has lost in excess of $200 MILLION in tax revenues, via tobacco industry STATE SALES TAX fraud and tobacco industry STATE INCOME TAX fraud, going back over 40 years. 

CT State Rep's DelGobbo and SanAngelo lied and reneged on promises made to The Shuster Project to work closely with us and do all that they could to address just these 2 issues so that CT could begin to recover these huge sums of defrauded tax revenues, thus completely eliminating any "need" to increase the state sales tax on cigarettes. 

And DelGobbo lied and reneged on a promise he made to the Exec. Dir. of The Shuster Project, to publicly speak in favor of the passage of a House Bill (HB-6942) The Shuster Project lawyers had composed, the very day it was brought before the Judiciary Committee for consideration. 

It is ludicrous beyond logic for any state to increase it's state sales tax on specific items when it’s application(s) and collection(s) on those items is proven to be as extremely flawed, as the result of fraud, as DelGobbo and SanAngelo learned from The Shuster Project and they both agreed it was flawed.

In a state (CT) that has a state budget deficit of $200 MILLION yet has an even GREATER sum of currently uncollected, defrauded state tax revenues as the result of corporate fraud that can be collected to completely OFFSET that deficit WITHOUT increasing ANY taxes, it continues to be a total mystery why CT legislators continue to ignore repeated contacts and ALERTS from The Shuster Project which illustrates in great detail this fraud, yet they choose to just allow this fraud to continue unabated and allow the gross sum of this uncollected, defrauded state tax revenue to grow.

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