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Lithuania's revenue from tobacco excise duties up 2 % in 2018
BC, Vilnius, 22.01.2019.Print version
Lithuania's total revenue from tobacco excise duties rose by slightly more than 2% last year compared with 2017, while wholesale tobacco product sales fell by almost 4%, according to the latest figures from the State Tax Inspectorate writes LETA/BNS.
The amount of declared tobacco excise duties totaled 282.725
mln euros in 2018, up by 2.3% from 276.412 mln euros a year earlier. Declared
cigarette sales declined by 3.8% to 2.801 mln units, based on data from
excise warehouses.
An empty pack survey by Nielsen
showed illegal cigarettes accounting for 16.5% of Lithuania's tobacco market
last November.