Those Foxy Functionaries of the Ministry

Prezzo minimo abrogato!Italo Volpe, head of the Legal Office of the Treasury Ministry, responding to a letter Yesmoke sent, communicated that the regulation of the minimum price “will be abrogated as soon as possible due to the recent sentence of the European Court of Justice”, but he skipped mentioning the ridiculous “minimum tax” that will cancel out any benefits of the abrogation.

How can the professor support the measure of the undersecretary of Finance, Alberto Giorgetti, Gianfranco Fini’s man, giving this answer of a typical paper-pusher? Italo Volpe is not directly responsible for the operation of Giorgetti, but in this way he becomes his accomplice. Read more »

Lecce: Hands off the Manufacturing!

Protesta dei lavoratori Manifattura Tabacchi di Lecce

The workers’ protest at the Manifattura Tabacchi di Lecce - Lecce Tobacco works

“For production reasons dictated by the current international economic context…” this is how British American Tobacco explained its decision to transfer production from its Italian factory in Lecce to Germany.

After the sale in 2004 of the Italian Tobacco Agency - Ente Tabacchi Italiano - to B.A.T., the zeroing out in Italy of cigarette production is being completed with the closure of all 21 ex-E.T.I. factories. Read more »

"Fare Futuro": Incompetent Lobbyists, in Total Disarray

The tobacco multinationals created, and have supported since 2005, a system that has made them rich at the expense of the country, and they have not realised yet that this system cannot continue.

Alberto Giorgetti

Alberto Giorgetti, Finance Undersecretary

Instead of modifying the system to adapt it to the new European Community directives, the tobacco multinationals, backed in the Government, by Gianfranco Fini’s man Alberto Giorgetti, have shown how unprepared they are. They have exceeded the limits of a lobby that is now falling apart, a lobby that the country must finally get rid of.

Italy’s totally unacceptable law decree no. 94 of 23/7/2010, devised at the last moment and hastily converted into law, created conditions that are forcing politicians to finally bring order back to the entire tobacco taxation legislation.

To guarantee tax revenue in the coming years or to increase it, from now on, the Government can only regularly raise the aliquot of the excises, and the cigarette manufacturers will have to give up part of their unjustifiable profits. Read more »

"Fare Futuro" – For a Future as Servants

Fascisti traditoriThe “tassa minima” — minimum tax — on cigarettes, a product of Gianfranco Fini’s supporters of “Fare Futuro”* is the only tax in the world that is absolutely impossible to pay.

Inventing a fake tax to leave everything just as it was before and not increasing taxes on the multinational tobacco manufacturers is a servile act that goes beyond all limits. Read more »

Cigarette taxes – The Example of France

Liberte Egalite FraterniteIt all started in early July with British American Tobacco; the company brought down its prices of Lucky Strikes and Rothmans by 20 cents.

“Taking advantage of a recent decision of the European Court of Justice — wrote Le Parisienne — some brands have lowered their price by 20 or 25 cents a pack.”

The French State announced that it intended to increase the taxes on cigarettes so that the prices would return to what they were before. In this way, the State could earn more on a pack of Lucky Strikes and BAT would earn less. Read more »

The Minimum Price – Abolition, the Italian Way

Italy’s minimum price of cigarettes has been abolished, as the sentence of the European Court of Justice ordered. But the Italian State Monopolies Agency - Azienda Autonoma Monopoli di Stato - has refused to give Yesmoke, that has made the request, authorization to lower its prices.

Il Gioco delle Tre Campanelle“On this question, - the AAMS points out - article 39quater, parag. 2 of legislative decree 26 October 1995, no. 504, and subsequent amendments and integrations states that requests of this nature must be accompanied, in relation to the sales volumes of each product, by a report representing the economic and financial consequences of the proposed variation”.

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Tobacco Taxes – We Are Giving up 900 million

SoldiThe latest sting, called «tassa minima» - minimum tax - is a tax on cigarettes that no one will pay. For the joy of Big Tobacco, the added income for the State will be zero.

On the contrary, the “minimum excise” indicated by the European Union would bring an additional 900 million euro into the State coffers every year without disrupting the tobacco price lists.

With the “minimum excise”, the prices in tobacco shops of the most expensive cigarettes would stay the same, while the prices of the cheaper brands (MS, Diana, Winston, Pall Mall etc.) might stay the same, or increase just slightly, at the discretion on the manufacturer. Read more »

The AAMS Is Cheating the Government: D.L. 94 of 23/6/2010

Danger thieves stencilThe “minimum tax” on cigarettes, outlined in law decree D.L. 94 dated 23/6/2010, will not bring the increase in fiscal revenues the Government is expecting.

This tax, studied by the AAMS (Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato - Autonomous State Monopolies Administration), will do nothing more than recreate the situation of the “minimum price”, for which last June 24th the Italian Republic was condemned by the European Court of Justice.

The new “minimum tax”  will allow foreign multinational cigarette manufacturers, coordinated by the AAMS itself, to continue their “cartel” which, with the excuse of not reducing tax revenues, has enabled them in these years to increase their profits in a shrinking market. Read more »

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