Monthly Archives: March 2015
Is Nicotine Really Bad?
6th March 2015
I’ve just finished reading an interesting and insightful article that would make putting increased taxes on e-cigarettes even more counter-productive, because as pointed out in the article we can’t find much reason to deem nicotine, in the amounts users ingest, as
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Proof that Higher Taxes on E-cigarettes Will Harm
4th March 2015
When the Italian government added increased taxes to E-cigarettes including the liquids, batteries and accessories, which effectively doubled their price, we had an opportunity to observe the effect in terms of the number of users. These fell by half to 255,000
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Surprise! EU Says E-Cigarettes Should be Taxed like Tobacco
2nd March 2015
In a very predictable move, EU bureaucrats have re-actively proposed a way to achieve tax ‘parity’ between conventional tobacco and e-cigarettes, most likely on e-liquids. The increased levy they propose would mean adding something like 57% value-added tax to products. The
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