The pack of cigarettes will soon cost more, after two years of stability, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced. The tobacconists had said themselves “worried” of this perspective.
Le Monde with AFP
Two years that he had not moved. The price of the packet of cigarettes “will increase as inflation”, announced Elisabeth Borne, Monday September 26, RMC and BFM-TV, before the presentation of the 2023 budget project in the Council of Ministers. “It would be quite paradoxical for the increase in cigarettes to be lower than inflation”, it would mean that “ultimately, relatively, the price would drop,” said the Prime Minister, noting that this situation would not be coherent ” Impact on tobacco health “.
Friday, The Les Echos had announced that the government was planning to index the right of accui on inflation on tobacco , or an increase About 70 cents of around the price of cigarette packets, according to an economic daily costing. Asked about the subject, government spokesperson Olivier Véran then referred to the presentation of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS). “This is where the announcements will intervene,” he said.
The tobacconists said on Friday “worried” on Friday of the prospect of seeing tax on tobacco increase. For the president of the Confederation of tobacconists, Philippe Coy, any increase should be “very moderate, of the order of 20 cents per year,” he said to the France-Presse agency. He had claimed “a multi-year visibility of taxation, as under the previous five-year period”, allowing professionals “to pilot the liner and find the right orientations”.