GERB and United Patriots will not withdraw the Smoke-Free Tax Bill (OBZOR)

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Sofia. GERB and United Patriots will not withdraw the Excise Tax Bill on Smoke-Free Cigarettes. The proposed new excise tax was introduced by GERB on the grounds that it would bring additional revenue into the budget. VMRO and Attack, two of the United Patriots, announced that they would not support GERB and would vote against the proposal. Only the third member of the coalition, NFFS, supported the idea of ​​a higher excise duty. In response to these shared opinions, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov ordered the withdrawal of the bill. The Prime Minister has been criticized by Kornelia Ninova, head of the BSP, for instituting order in the Balkans and Europe, and has failed to put order in his own cabinet
After a meeting of the ruling majority in the National Assembly, the chairman of GERB GUEB Tsvetan Tsvetanov pointed out that there was a lack of dialogue with the representatives of the IMRO and s & # 39; is excused from his colleagues. He explained that a consensus had been reached and that the bill would not be withdrawn. "It will be withdrawn this week by the Committee on Budget and Finance, where it was supposed to be examined," Tsvetanov said, adding that the review would remain next week so that further badysis can be done. "Our goal is not to increase the price of cigarettes, but to reduce corporate profits to get this money in the budget." Currently, the cost of electronic and normal cigarettes is 5.50 leva, the excise duty paid by the tobacco companies is 3.50 leva and that of the electronic cigarettes of 0.93 leva, "explained Tsvetanov. He pointed out that it would most likely be proposed that the excise duty on smokeless cigarettes be 50% of that of ordinary cigarettes
The president of the unified patriots, PG Volen Siderov, explained that he had met with the finance minister Vladislav Goranov that part of the money from excise duties on smokeless cigarettes would go to people in need like mothers of disabled children. "According to the Minister of Finance, the excise tax will rise to 35-40 million levs a year, and next year maybe twice as much." Why some of this money does not Should not it go exactly for such needs? So, for the moment, I am convinced of the positive side of this issue, "explained Siderov
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Iskren Vesselinov, MP for the United Patriots PG and a member of IMRO, said that he was delighted that there is already a dialogue between the coalition. "And we hope to achieve a result that is good for consumers and their health," he said.
MEP Stoyanova, chairman of the Parliamentary Budget Committee and GERB MP, explained that the increase in excise duties on smokeless cigarettes will be done in stages. In fact, this will offset some of the reduction in other excise duties, as smokers switch from one type of cigarette to another. It is not a coincidence that the expansion of smokeless cigarettes has started in Eastern Europe, maybe we are a field of experimentation on how smokers go about to work, "Stoyanova said, noting that the highest excise tax rate on conventional tobacco is in France – 70% and in Bulgaria only 26%. State of Western Europe with a lower excise rate in Bulgaria
In this regard, the opposition leader, Cornelia Ninova, said that the gap between Borisov and Tsvetanov is now valid. "I wonder if parliamentarism or interest is overthrowing today and dividing power," writes Ninova on his personal social network Facebook
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