In Indonesia, which has a huge domestic tobacco industry that is a vital source of employment, the Government must walk a fine line between tobacco’s benefits and costs.Read More
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There is something odd when a consumers' organization calls for certain consumers to be hit with eye-watering increases in taxes.Read More
Tobacco excise taxes are to fund healthcare insurance for the residents of Kediri City, Indonesia, where Gudang Garam has factories.Read More
Indonesia is going to rethink its plan to simplify and increase tobacco tax excise. Read More
A year-on-year fall in sales during the first six months of 2018 is said to have indicated that the number of smokers in Indonesia has 'tumbled'.Read More
E-liquid users and producers in Indonesia are looking on the bright side of a new excise tax, which, in effect, recognizes the legitimacy of the industry.Read More
The Indonesian Government has been accused of wasting money on a World Trade Organization dispute over standardized packaging that it was unlikely to win.Read More
Vapers and smokers in Indonesia have been granted a stay of execution by the Government, which is delaying until October the imposition of a 57 percent tax-burden on e-liquids.Read More
Given that vaping can be effective in encouraging – a word used advisedly here – people to quit smoking tobacco; a tax on e-liquids seems to be a tax on good health.Read More
Imposing excise tax on electronic cigarettes to curb tobacco consumption will work only if e-cigarettes are defined as – or deemed to be – tobacco products.Read More