Commission Looks to Revise Tax on Tobacco and Alternatives

Commission looks to revise tax on tobacco and alternatives

'The rules for tobacco taxation are no longer fit for purpose,' a source told Euractiv.

Spain and 14 other European countries have asked Brussels to update the directive on tobacco taxation. In a letter signed by the finance ministers and to which the country has had access, they regret that “the existing legislative framework is obsolete as a whole and is no longer suitable for its purpose”, since it does not take into account new products and trends that have broken into the market with force — for example, vaperers. They also re…

The companies of the tobacco industry are in full transformation with the objective of moving towards products that differ from the traditional cigarette. Some of them are the vapeers, which have become popular in recent years and constitute an alternative to combustion tobacco. But the new strategy of the industry is colliding the new regulations that the Ministry of Health wants to introduce. Minister Mónica García wants to regulate the market…

"It is clear that the current legislative framework is out of date in its entirety and is no longer in line with its objectives", denounces the Ministers of Finance and Economy of Spain, Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Slovenia in a letter sent to the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen. The letter, advanced by the Br…

Fifteen EU countries including the Czech Republic again call for a change in the directive on tobacco taxation

Brussels – Fifteen member states, including the Czech Republic, complained today in Brussels about the alleged inadequacy of the directive on tobacco taxation. According to a letter signed by the finance and economy ministers of these states, including Zbyňek Stanjura, the current legislative framework is outdated and insufficiently addresses the current state of the tobacco market, including new products. According to the finance ministers, pro…

Spain and 14 other countries of the European Union, including France and Germany, have urged the European Commission on Monday to modernise the current directive on minimum taxes on tobacco which they consider to be "out of date" and which leaves out new forms of consumption such as vaping machines, according to EFE. "It is clear that the current legislative framework is out of date in its entirety and is no longer in line with its objectives", …