According HN Daily the Parliament should decide about the excise tax hike for tobacco products. ODS (Civic Democrats) will push lower excise tax hike than originally proposed by former government. Communists stated that will support the lower draft.
Our view:
We see the support from the Communists for lower excise tax as critical for passing variant EUR 60 per 1,000 cigarettes versus CSSD's variant of EUR 62. The crucial thing will be if pre-stocking limitation will be passed as it should be discussed jointly with tax hike proposal.