2024-07-30 14:00:40
The French smoke less and less. Tobacco sales should bring in 400 million euros less to the State in 2024 than initially planned, Bercy said on Tuesday, confirming information from the economic day. The echoes.
Bercy confirmed his estimate that “consumer duties on tobacco products”, which represent around two thirds of the price of a pack of cigarettes, will take in 13.6 billion euros in 2024 (without VAT), or 400 million The euro is lower than initially expected.
According to Les Échos, this development is attributed to a decrease in sales, with 650 million packs of cigarettes sold in the first quarter, or 100 million less than in the same period last year.
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According to the latest customs data, in June 2024, the volume of cigarettes sold in tobacco in mainland France fell by 23.33% over a year, and those of hand-rolled tobacco by 26.61%.
This shortfall for the State comes with the rise in tobacco prices in 2024, with increases of up to 1.50 euros per pack, tobacco tax is now linked to inflation. The government’s anti-smoking program presented at the end of November plans to gradually increase the land price of packs of 20 cigarettes to 13 euros at the beginning of 2027.
In 2023, the tobacco market fell by 1.1% in value and 7.9% in volume.
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