Since January cigarettes and tobacco could cost more and the price would continue to rise from year to year until 2028. It is the intervention on which the MEF is at work in view of the next maneuver, with a plan of progressive ups and downs of the excise duties on smoking products starting from 2026. According to the hypothesis, the tabaccaio prices would grow progressively in the next three years, until they reach a final increase of one and a half.
The government’s move would have been designed to compensate for the possible less revenue that could cause the level of minimal excise levels imposed by Europe, as per Brussels proposal.
The increases on Tobacco and Cigarette excise duties
According to what reported by Republicthe touches on the cums of tobacco would return to the new three -year tax calendar, starting next year, on the majority table.
The government are studying the revision of the scheme of excise duties that affect the final price of the packages, in addition to the other item of the tax component, the VAT, the manufacturer’s revenue and the public for the retail dealer.
The programming will serve both to the State, to estimate the revenue from the tobacco sector as possible, and to the operators, to guarantee them still stopped on the accounts.
Sources of the executive have ensured that it will not be a “enormous” increase, but the figure paid by the consumer, established by the manufacturer with the approval of the customs and monopolies agency, will inevitably be affected by automatic increases.
The revision of the taxation will also concern electronic cigarettes, but with a lower impact to avoid penalizing investments on new generation products.
In any case, the ups and on the excise duties will have progressive growth, as confirmed by the same sources. The deputy minister of the economy, Maurizio Leo assured the desire to meet the instances of a sector deemed strategic and fundamental, which guarantees a collection of the tax of about 15 billion euros between VAT and excise duties.
The minimum excise duties requested by the European Commission
A figure that, as declared on the other deputy minister to MEF Federico Freni, could be questioned by the increase in the European excise duties requested by Brussels, but to which the state does not want to give up.
The EU Commission has in fact presented two proposals:
- an increase in the minimum level of the tobacco taxation to be applied at European level
- the obligation for all member countries to pay 15% of the revenue on minimum excise duties applied to the sector
The increase in minimal excise duties in Europe, stopped from 2010, could start from 2028.
According to estimates, the new EU tax on smoking would lead to an increase in excise duties on traditional cigarettes could increase by +139%, those on the chopped tobacco by +258%and those on cigars of +1,090%.
