Lainaus:
In 2013, when the Italian Parliament voted to raise the price of e-liquid by a whopping 150%, by introducing steep taxes, authorities estimated an increase of 85 million euros per year in tax revenue. They were wrong. According to Ignazio Abrignani, an Italian deputy and member of the parliamentary intergroup “electronic cigarettes”, of the originally predicted 85 million euros, only 5 million in e-liquid taxes entered state coffers, in 2015, and the same is expected to happen this year. That’s a 160 million euro budget hole for the last two years.
“The excise duty introduced in 2013 has managed to depress a growing market,” Abrignani told L’Espresso, adding that “the increase in e-liquid prices has generated a strong demand for foreign products which, in the absence of controls tax, has done serious damage to Italian companies that respect the law. “