(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 24 - The increase in the cost of cigarettes envisaged in the draft of the maneuver amounts to around 20 cents in the first year and between 10 and 15 on average over the three years.
After two years of no tax increases, the text raises the so-called 'specific' excise duty (today in Italy at the lowest levels in Europe) from 23 to 36 euros per 1,000 cigarettes in 2023, to 36.50 euros per 1,000 cigarettes in 2024 and 37.00 euros for 1,000 cigarettes starting from 2025. An increase in the fixed part which entails an automatic reduction in the variable part of the excise duty which, on balance, translates precisely into an average increase in prices, considering both high-end and low range, about 20 cents a pack the first year and 10-15 cents over three years on average.
The tax on electronic cigarettes is stabilized, already the protagonists of increases in past years but then sterilized.
In this case it is about 8 cents per ml for lee-cig without nicotine and about 13 euro cents per ml of products with nicotine.
In the wake of recent years in this case, the tax on heated tobacco also continues to increase.
Over four years it amounts to 10-15 cents.
According to some estimates, the whole operation would involve a collection of over 100 million a year.
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