How much is the cigarette tax in Wyoming?

Wyoming charges a 60-cent-per-pack excise tax on cigarettes (a pack of 20). This is one of the lowest cigarette taxes in the United States, far below high-tax states that charge $3 or more per pack.

How much is the beer tax in Wyoming?

Wyoming has the lowest beer excise tax in the country at just 0.5 cents per gallon (half a cent). On a 24-pack of 12-ounce cans, that works out to a tiny fraction of a cent in state excise tax.

How much does Wyoming tax wine and spirits?

Wyoming's wine excise is about 7.5 cents per gallon. Wyoming is a control state for distilled spirits, so the state's wholesale markup functions in place of a simple per-gallon excise; the modeled spirits rate here is an estimate of the equivalent burden.

Why are Wyoming sin taxes so low?

Wyoming has historically kept excise taxes on cigarettes and alcohol very low and relies more on mineral and severance taxes for revenue. Its beer tax in particular has not been raised in decades and remains the lowest nationwide.

Is the excise tax included in the shelf price?

Yes. Cigarette and alcohol excise taxes are built into the price you pay at the register. This calculator isolates the Wyoming state excise portion so you can see how much of the price is tax.

Wyoming Cigarette & Alcohol Tax Calculator

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What Wyoming charges on cigarettes and alcohol

Wyoming has some of the lowest excise taxes in the country on cigarettes and alcohol. Cigarettes carry a 60-cent-per-pack tax, and beer is taxed at just 0.5 cents per gallon — the lowest in the nation. This tool applies the current Wyoming excise schedule to your quantity so you can see exactly how much of the price is state tax.

How it works

Each product has its own per-unit excise rate:

Cigarettes: $0.60 per pack of 20
Beer: $0.005 per gallon
Wine: $0.075 per gallon
Spirits: modeled at an estimated equivalent rate (Wyoming is a control state, so its wholesale markup replaces a simple excise)

The total is just rate times quantity:

total excise = per-unit rate × quantity

For alcohol, enter gallons; for cigarettes, enter packs. The result is the Wyoming state excise embedded in your purchase.

Notes and example

A carton of cigarettes (10 packs) carries 10 × $0.60 = $6.00 in Wyoming excise tax. A 15.5-gallon keg of beer carries only 15.5 × $0.005 ≈ $0.08 — essentially nothing. These are state excise figures only; federal excise and sales tax add more. Spirits handling varies because Wyoming is a control state — treat that figure as an estimate and confirm with revenue.wyo.gov.