煙草在線據Tengrinews報道編譯　　Tengrinews.kz報道援引“無煙哈薩克斯坦”全國聯盟主席Dzhamilya Sadykova的話稱，從2014年1月1日起，哈薩克斯坦的煙草消費稅將增加一倍。

　　從2014年起，每千支卷煙的煙草消費稅將達3000騰格（合20美元），即每包卷煙的消費稅達60騰格（合0.4美元）。哈薩克斯坦總統已簽署了一項單獨的立法法案。

　　據Sadykova表示，有望在以后幾年內進一步提高消費稅。反煙聯盟建議，在2015年以前把每包卷煙的消費稅提至90騰格（合0.6美元）。這意味著卷煙的最終價格也會上漲，但價格上漲的幅度將取決于煙草公司。聯盟主席稱，該組織的目標是把每包卷煙的價格提至1000騰格（合6.7美元）。

　　據Sadykova說，消費稅增加一倍將挽救大約18.3萬哈薩克斯坦人的性命（包括9.5萬名成年人和8.8萬名年輕人的性命）。這可能使年輕人的吸煙率降低19%，而且21.9萬名年輕人將戒煙。除此之外，國家的預算收入將增加4倍：從每年的300億騰格增加至1300億騰格（即從2億美元增至8.67億美元）。

　　Sadykova早些時候表示，哈薩克斯坦的煙草公司獲得了超額利潤，將不會受到消費稅增加的顯著影響。據她表示，制造商從每包卷煙中獲得60騰格（合0.4美元）的利潤，每年獲得總計1380億騰格（合9.2億美元）的利潤。

Tobacco excise to double in Kazakhstan by 2014

　　Tobacco excise duties will double in Kazakhstan starting from January 1, 2014, Tengrinews.kz reports citing head of the national coalition For Tobacco-Free Kazakhstan!

　　Starting from 2014 the excise on tobacco will make 3,000 tenge ($20) per 1,000 cigarettes or 60 tenge ($0.4) per a pack. A respective legislative act has already been signed by Kazakhstan President.

　　According to Sadykova, a further increase of excise duties is expected in the following years. The anti-tobacco coalition suggests to bring the rates to 90 tenge ($0.6) per pack by 2015. This means that the final price of cigarettes will grow as well, but the size of this price raise will depend on tobacco companies. Head of the coalition says that the organization's goal is to bring cigarette price to 1,000 tenge ($6.7) per a pack.

　　According to Sadykova, the doubling of the excise duties would save around 183 thousand lives (including 95 thousand adults and 88 thousand young people) in Kazakhstan. This could reduce smoking among young people by 19 percent and 219 thousand young people will quit smoking. Besides, the state budget revenues would grow 4-fold: from 30 to 130 billion tenge (from $200 to 867 million) per year.

　　Earlier Sadykova said that Kazakhstan's tobacco companies were gaining excess profits and would not be significantly affected by the raise in the excise duties. According to her, the producers make 60 tenge ($0.4) per each pack and a total profit of 138 billion tenge ($920 million) per year.

　　For more information see: http://en.tengrinews.kz/markets/Tobacco-excise-to-double-in-Kazakhstan-by-2014-16658/
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