With the latest arrangement, only the minimum fixed tax amount was increased from 38.99 cents to 45.69 cents per branch of cigarette. Thus, the lowest cigarette price increased to 14 liras.
Tax expert and Başkent University Lecturer Dr. According to the calculation made by Ozan Bingöl, the Special Consumption Tax (SCT), cut from cigarettes since 2006, which was thrown from zero, reached 325.7 billion liras. When Value Added Tax (VAT) of 50 billion liras was added, the total tax reached 375 liras. With the latest regulation, the share of tobacco SCT in total taxes rose to 6.86 percent and its share in all SCT taxes rose to 27.67 percent.
17 BRANCH TAX OF THE PACKAGE
Stating that the tax burden on a pack of cigarettes is 85.6 percent. Ozan Bingöl said, “17 branches of a pack of cigarettes are tax and the remaining 3 branches are the product itself. It would be more correct to say that smokers smoke instead of tobacco. He adds the burden of the tax. ”
Emphasizing that cigarette taxation is the favorite tax type of tax administrations that make easy taxation, Bingöl said: “SCT income flows into the Treasury’s bank account without moving your hand. Increasing SCT income every year tells us this. These policies of the Finance administration, which prefers tax collection with an anesthetic, fast and easy approach, which has been based on indirect taxes for years by making easy taxation, increases the income injustice every day. ”
FINANCE HAS BEEN FAVORITE
Dr. According to the study of Ozan Bingöl, tobacco products have become the basic item in tax since the SCT came into effect on August 1, 2002. The most important item among tobacco products is smoking. The development of the relative SCT on cigarettes also explains the factor in the increase of tax revenues from this tax item. The relative SCT on cigarettes constantly changed. At the same time, there have been several changes in the minimum price. A third tax element in the form of “fixed tax”, which is not the first form of the law, was added to the system. Thus, the SCT became the favorite tax of the Finance administration.
Dr. Ozan Bingöl
