Stubbe N.V. manufactures exclusively fine-cut tobacco products, which are mainly sold in the Benelux region and Germany. In partnership with Pöschl Tabak, Stubbe established Stubbe Tobacco Trading, which distributes and markets worldwide a wider range of traditional tobacco products, encompassing fine-cut, pipe, and chewing tobaccos, as well as traditional European nasal snuff.
An obvious correlation exists between the highest levels of illegal and non-domestic consumption (e.g. France, UK, Ireland, Poland and Finland) and the highest taxation rates applied to fine-cut toconsbacco, in comparison with cigarettes. The figures clearly show that any alignment of tobacco taxation, regardless of the products’ specificities, will prevent fine-cut tobacco from fulfilling its buffer function, leading to increased illegal trade of cigarettes and driving down government revenues.
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