Tobacco tax increase likely
Increasing the tobacco retail tax — one of the world’s lowest at 10 per cent of unit price for domestically produced cigarettes — would deter smokers and increase government revenue while having minimal effect on tobacco producers, Ayda Yurekli, co-ordinator for the World Health Organization’s tobacco control economics unit, told a tobacco taxation workshop yesterday. ... Hang Choun Naron, secretary of state at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, told attendees he could not predict by how much the government would increase the tax. ... Tax Department deputy legal officer Chour Se said Cambodia’s 10 per cent per unit tax was significantly lower than Thailand’s 85 per cent, Vietnam’s 65 per cent, Malaysia’s 25 per cent or Laos’s 15 per cent. ...
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