Smokers this concerns you. The prices of cigarettes of the brands ” popular Will again undergo an increase at the beginning of 2022. According to a source ofMoroccoLatestNews, the increase will vary between 1 to 2 dirhams, or even more, the packet of cigarettes.
The price of manufactured tobacco has been increasing for four years since 2017. Last operation in sight, the announcement on January 2, 2021 by the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII) of the increase in the prices of manufactured tobacco.
According to a source close to the file who had confided on the subject to MoroccoLatestNews, ” tobacco operators have undergone very significant tax adjustments over the past four years (2017, 2018 and 2019, 2020). This means that what the tobacco operator ultimately considers as earnings, the state comes to take away tens of millions of dirhams. And the shortfall, it must be passed on somewhere, in particular through the rise in prices “.
Reason for which, the tobacco operators had asked the commission for the approval of prices of manufactured tobacco products, that a revision of the prices of the packages is made since they do not have the right to increase the prices by them. themselves. It is absolutely necessary to go through the commission, specifies our source, noting that the operators submitted their request individually and not collectively, and finally, it turned out that all the operators requested it.
Today, the aforementioned committee met again in mid-December, to rule on the new price list for cigarettes. It emerged that international brands are not affected by this price increase which will take effect from January 1, but only brands produced locally, in particular brands ” popular“, Sold at less than 26 dirhams a packet,” she explains.
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