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2017. During the first six months of the year, beer sales in these stores reached 7.12 million liters, but this year in the first half – 12.6 million liters. Meanwhile, sales of light alcoholic beverages rose from 630,000 liters in the first half of last year to 2.1 million liters during the same period, according to the badociation
as expected by aldary during the year 2018. "The figures for the first six months of this year clearly indicate that, contrary to the expectations of the Ministry of Finance, the maximum volume of cross-border trade is far from being reached, "said Peters Verk, director of the Estonian badociation Aldaru.
"Already more than a third of the beer consumed in Estonia is purchased at our southern border, no other European Union country has so much cross-border trade, which happened in a year, "he said.
According to Verka, the increase in cross-border trade affects more and more negatively the excise tax oak revenues. From January to June, compared with the first half of last year, sales of light alcoholic beverages, whose excise duties in the Estonian state budget fell by 40%.
"In taxes, we give the Latvian state more than 100 million euros a year, and at the same time authoritative studies show that alcohol consumption in Estonian society has increased and that alcohol consumption has increased in Estonian society.We ask the government not only to drop the excise tax increases, but to bring this rate back to a competitive level, so that trade border with Latvia cease, "said the head of the Aldaru Association of Estonia. beer and light alcoholic beverages, but the badociation itself is a member of the Estonian Association of Food Producers and cooperates with the ministries and government organizations involved in the health field.
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