TTI Czechoslovakia, a subsidiary of Pöschl Tobacco, is the sole importer and distributor of a range of tobacco products in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, including cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and European traditional 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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