The illegal trade in cigarettes, which in 2016 accounted for 12.1 percent of the Indonesian market, will be given a boost by tax hikes in the pipeline.Read More
One way to beat the illegal trade in cigarettes is to offer smokers licit products that sell for the same price as illicit ones; as has been happening in Morocco.Read More
The consumable elements of heat-not-burn products look likely to incur a significant tax increase in South Korea.Read More
Campaigners are concerned that UK smokers are going to be hit with a second tax rise this year, and one that might be based on a flawed measure of inflation. Read More
The tweaking of the security features on new tax stamps in the Philippines is delaying their deployment.Read More
Doubling the tax on cigarettes would undoubtedly be a body blow to smokers in the Philippines, but it might also take the wind out of government revenues.Read More
One of the effects of the South Korean government’s tobacco tax hike at the beginning of 2015 was to encourage the import of electronic cigarettes.Read More
New Zealand needs to lower its tobacco-products excise taxes, if only to avoid having to carry out the hideous punishments being suggested for people who rob retailers.Read More
Three tax evasion complaints against Mighty Corporation have been withdrawn following an agreement under which the Philippines’ government is to be paid about P40 billion.Read More
According to one report, a quarter of Latvia’s cigarette market is accounted for by contraband cigarettes, most of which arrive from Belarus and Russia.Read More
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