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Duty-free cigarettes Turia’s next target
According to the latest news, New Zealand will follow Australia in reducing the duty-free cigarette allowance. Tariana Turia, Associate Health Minister, declared that she intends to cut duty-free cigarette allowance. Starting with September 1, the allowance for bringing in tobacco in Australia has been significantly reduced. The previous duty-free cigarette allowance was 250 cigarettes or 250 grams of cigars. The … Continue reading Continue reading
Health groups: Stop duty-free cigs
Health groups are intending to cut duty-free tobacco allowances for travelers. Several groups proposed to increase tobacco tax announced in the Budget – and all have called for duty-free allowances to be cut and for tobacco tax increases to be much sharper than the proposed increases of 10 % a year over the next 4 years. The groups include the … Continue reading
