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Since May 1 Smokers will have to pay 60% MORE
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 (GST)
March 18, the Rada of Ukraine adopted on first reading a bill to raise from 1 May, 2009 excise rates on Cigarettes without the filter in 2.2 times, with the filter - at 60%.
So smokers are in the difficult dilemma: to pay more for bad habits or get rid of it.
Kill two birds with one stone: break compatriots from harmful habits, but through a particularly dependent replenish the state budget - the sponsors of the bill is calculated. If the document passes the second reading, that seems to happen, because he prepared the people's deputies of the two largest factions in the PL: BYuT and the Party of Regions, the excise tax on Cigarettes without filter, up from the existing 15.6 UAH. up to 35 UAH. a thousand pieces, with the filter - to 37,5 UAH. up to 60 UAH. for 1 thousand.
In addition, the bill would increase the excise tax on all tobacco products as a percentage from 16% to 20%, and it will not charge with the implementation of traffic in goods, as was the case previously, and as a percentage of the maximum retail price. Proposed to increase the minimum tax liability on the cigarette with a filter from 47 to 100 UAH. / 1 thousand., Or to 1,06 UAH per pack of 20 Cigarettes.
As stated in the explanatory note to the document as a result of the introduction of new rates of excise duty range of prices for Cigarettes with a filter rise from the current 2,5 - 8,5 UAH. for a stack of up to 3,75 - 10,5 UAH., or 1,25 - 2 UAH. per pack. Thus, the increase in the price of Cigarettes with filter an average of 30 - 40%.
Incidentally, this is not the first time since the beginning of the year rise in prices of tobacco products: Ukraine from 1 February 2009 increased the excise rates on Cigarettes without a filter to 15,6 UAH. / 1 thousand., With the filter - up to 37,5 UAH. / 1 thousand. instead of previously existing 12,5 UAH. and 30 UAH. / 1 thousand. respectively. The following «soft» raise should have been only happen in the second half of this year, and then in 2010. And only in 2011 in Ukraine was to be introduced that excise duty on Cigarettes without a filter (in the amount of UAH 35. / 1 thousand., With the filter - 60 UAH. / 1 thousand.) That is injected, as People's Deputy, apparently decided not to wait for the expiration of two years. The main argument - the additional income will be the treasury of almost 4 billion UAH. What is important for a rapidly devastating budget.
In addition to concerns about filling the coffers, legislators explain the need to raise excise duty on tobacco is a concern about the health of the nation. In their view, the rise of Cigarettes by an average of 1.25 - 2 UAH. reduce the number of smokers.
In doing so, the authors of the bill believe that the new rates of the Rada had yet to introduce in December 2008. «But while tobacco lobbyists ensured that another law was passed with a significantly lower excises (which came into force on 1 February 2009)», - told the «cause», one of the sponsors of the new bill Yuri Miroshnichenko. It will be recalled that the said Parliament Act had been amended national deputy from BYUT Igor Savchenko and as a result of taxes on Cigarettes were raised in December.
Against the new co-sponsor the law on excise rates on tobacco products - the head of committee on taxation and customs policy Sergei Terekhin, believing that the new rates will surge in smuggling from Russia and Moldova. And he will likely not alone in his protest - hardly difficult to get by reducing the population will have on the soul of this concern about the power of his health. Moreover, a sharp denial from smoking - it is a great stress for the organism that does not pass without leaving a trace or for health or for your purse. After all, drugs also went several times.