Increase in excise duties on roll-your-own tobacco

Article 29 of the 2017 social security financing act rewrites Article 575 A of the General Tax Code. For fine-cut tobacco for rolling cigarettes, the ad valorem component rises from 32% to 37.7% of the retail price and the specific component is set at €67.50 per kilogram; the minimum excise is raised to €161/kg in 2017, then €167/kg. Other parameters are set notably at 49.7% and €48.75 per thousand cigarettes, with a minimum excise of €210 per thousand cigarettes. The stated aim is to align the tax burden on rolling tobacco with that on cigarettes. The scale was later replaced by the 2018 social security financing act trajectory.