EDITORIAL: Taxing cigarettes is a tricky business

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Hiking taxes on tobacco products risks making the illicit market bigger and more lucrative

With the exception of tobacco companies and their shareholders, it’s hard to find anyone who disputes that having fewer smokers would be a good thing.

ostensibly to fight the spread of coronavirus among smokers who share hand-rolled tobacco This was based on reasoning by co-operative governance & traditional affairs ministerDlamini-Zuma has said that the ban has been worth it because it had led to almost 1-million people giving up smoking. That was always going to be impossible to sustain in a free society such as ours, and the claims of success are also subject to debate.

Even when the SA Revenue Service was ranked among the best tax collection agencies in the world before being gutted during the state capture years, the illicit market was thriving, with three in 10 smokers already buying contraband cigarettes.

 

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