Australia’s Tobacco Tax Failure: Black Market Hits 80% Amid Gang Wars
How the world’s most expensive cigarettes fueled a $8B tax deficit and a wave of organized crime.
How the world’s most expensive cigarettes fueled a $8B tax deficit and a wave of organized crime.
The European Parliament’s ECON committee scales back proposed tax hikes on cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine pouches.
Smokers face new retail costs for cigarettes, cigars, and rolling tobacco as heavy taxation continues to drive up prices.
The fifth tobacco excise hike of 2026 lifts pack costs across major cigarette and cigar brands in Italy.
A comprehensive guide to navigating the European excise tax hikes on e-liquids, nicotine pouches, and heated tobacco products.
As Ireland pushes excise duties to €10.71, aggressive EU tax hikes are fueling a massive boom in counterfeit and contraband tobacco.
Italian customs authorities roll out the third price hike of 2026, hitting cigarettes, heated tobacco, and e-liquids.
Destatis reports a massive jump in taxed e-cigarette liquids while traditional cigarette consumption remains stagnant.
Italian Treasury secures €1.47 billion through 2028 as cigarette pack prices jump to €6.80.
Popular tobacco brands in Morocco see price increases of up to 2 dirhams under final 2022 fiscal reform stage.
Phased excise tax hikes starting in the new year will increase prices across all nicotine and nicotine-free products.
The European Commission’s aggressive proposal faces pushback from 11 Member States over economic, smuggling, and snus taxation concerns.