As chief executive of WCTA I am angered that once again small businesses involved in the tobacco trade are being penalised by this high tax government. Tax increases have been proved to be a totally ineffective way of reducing smoking levels.
WCTA see this as a blatant measure by the Treasury to increase the contents of its purse. Yet by raising the tax upon cigarettes again, the government is playing into the hands of organised smugglers who continue to take the Treasury to the cleaners.
We welcomed the additional £300m that the Chancellor has allocated to the security of British Ports. We hope this money will be used to combat the existing and inevitable increases to the levels of organised smuggling of tobacco products into the UK, as well as the threat of terrorism.
The government has ignored the representations from the tobacco trade which already has to deal with the implications and costs that the new tobacco regulations introduced earlier this year. The Budget has dealt another major blow to a wholesale industry already been stretched to the limit by this government.
WCTA see this as a blatant measure by the Treasury to increase the contents of its purse. Yet by raising the tax upon cigarettes again, the government is playing into the hands of organised smugglers who continue to take the Treasury to the cleaners.
We welcomed the additional £300m that the Chancellor has allocated to the security of British Ports. We hope this money will be used to combat the existing and inevitable increases to the levels of organised smuggling of tobacco products into the UK, as well as the threat of terrorism.
The government has ignored the representations from the tobacco trade which already has to deal with the implications and costs that the new tobacco regulations introduced earlier this year. The Budget has dealt another major blow to a wholesale industry already been stretched to the limit by this government.
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