Financial Times Article RatingBrussels to propose rise in cigarette taxes and first EU-wide vaping levy
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48% : The EU is to propose a bloc-wide vaping levy as part of a shake-up of taxation on the tobacco industry that would also double excise duties in member states with low cigarette taxes, according to a draft European Commission document.38% :Dustin Dahlmann, president of the Independent European Vape Alliance, added that imposing taxes on novel tobacco products could lead to "the much less harmful alternatives" to smoking being "taxed far too heavily in many countries".
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