Excise duties

8 February 2023 In 2022 the quantity of cigarettes taxed in Germany was down 8.3% year on year

In 2022,  65.8 billion cigarettes were taxed in Germany.The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a decrease of 6.0 billion, or 8.3%, compared with 2021. The decrease was markedly larger than in the preceding years (2021: -2.8%; 2020: -1.1%). One of the reasons for the sharp decline probably was the tobacco tax rise that took effect on 1 January 2022. Sales of cigars and cigarillos, too, were down by 8.9% to 2.5 billion. The quantity of fine cut tobacco taxed rose slightly by 0.9% to 25,080 tonnes year on year, despite the tax increase. This is probably due to the fact that hand-rolled cigarettes made of fine cut tobacco are cheaper than manufactured cigarettes and are often used as an alternative.

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