The day: Tobacco tax should also be due on e-cigarettes

The day
Tobacco tax should also be due on e-cigarettes

In Germany, smokers could soon be asked to pay more. The finance ministry is planning to increase the tobacco tax, writes the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". You have a draft for the tobacco tax modernization law. The tobacco tax should also apply to nicotine-containing e-cigarettes for the first time. For evaporators – so-called "heat-not-burn" products – the higher tax rate should apply in future and no longer the lower rate for pipe products, writes the newspaper. Accordingly, the tax on cigarettes should increase annually by eight cents per pack of twenty cigarettes from next year. For a 40-gram pack of fine cut, the tax increases by up to 15.7 cents.

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