Oneida Nation moving cigarette factory to its reservation; may have found a way around state taxes

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Published August 26, 2010 at 8:11 AM EDT

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Verona, NY – The Oneida Nation will move its cigarette making plant from the Buffalo area to its own reservation --a move that could blunt state efforts to tax sales to non-natives.

WRVO's Dave Bullard has the story.

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