Finance Ministry goes on with cigarette excises

The Finance Ministry is most likely to increase cigarette excises in spite of the opposition and lobby of international producers in the field, which operate in Romania.

If excises go up, cigarette prices go up, as well. Tobacco excises will be increased by a percentage to be set together with the cigarette makers this week, according to Finance minister Mihai Tanasescu.

“Excises will surely go up, but we’ll decide on the percentage together with cigarette producers,” Tanasescu specified.