烟草在线据Tengrinews报道编译　　Tengrinews.kz报道援引“无烟哈萨克斯坦”全国联盟主席Dzhamilya Sadykova的话称，从2014年1月1日起，哈萨克斯坦的烟草消费税将增加一倍。

　　从2014年起，每千支卷烟的烟草消费税将达3000腾格（合20美元），即每包卷烟的消费税达60腾格（合0.4美元）。哈萨克斯坦总统已签署了一项单独的立法法案。

　　据Sadykova表示，有望在以后几年内进一步提高消费税。反烟联盟建议，在2015年以前把每包卷烟的消费税提至90腾格（合0.6美元）。这意味着卷烟的最终价格也会上涨，但价格上涨的幅度将取决于烟草公司。联盟主席称，该组织的目标是把每包卷烟的价格提至1000腾格（合6.7美元）。

　　据Sadykova说，消费税增加一倍将挽救大约18.3万哈萨克斯坦人的性命（包括9.5万名成年人和8.8万名年轻人的性命）。这可能使年轻人的吸烟率降低19%，而且21.9万名年轻人将戒烟。除此之外，国家的预算收入将增加4倍：从每年的300亿腾格增加至1300亿腾格（即从2亿美元增至8.67亿美元）。

　　Sadykova早些时候表示，哈萨克斯坦的烟草公司获得了超额利润，将不会受到消费税增加的显著影响。据她表示，制造商从每包卷烟中获得60腾格（合0.4美元）的利润，每年获得总计1380亿腾格（合9.2亿美元）的利润。

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.

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