Contact: Todd Gabe, 581-3307; George Manlove, 581-3756ORONO — Maine’s new beverage taxes, at the heart of Question 1 on this November’s ballot, will cost Maine businesses and households as much as $40.7 million annually in higher taxes on beer, wine and nonalcoholic beverages, according to new research by University of Maine economist Todd Gabe.These taxes,
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