Curierul National: Vice tax – Romanian alcohol producers paid six times less than tobacco producers
Alcohol producers seem to contribute to the Health Ministry (HM) much less than those of the tobacco industry, given that the latter paid over 635 million euros in 2008 and 2009, and the HM claims that it spent 746 million euros of this tax in the past two years. According to Art.361 of Law 95/2006 […]
Alcohol producers seem to contribute to the Health Ministry (HM) much less than those of the tobacco industry, given that the latter paid over 635 million euros in 2008 and 2009, and the HM claims that it spent 746 million euros of this tax in the past two years.
According to Art.361 of Law 95/2006 „the revenues of the Health Ministry resulted from contributions of legal persons producing or importing tobacco products and alcoholic beverages, other than beer and wine, or creating revenue from advertising and other products, are used for investments in infrastructure and public health system facilities, for financing national health programmes and for the HM reserve for special situations.”
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