{"id":20744,"date":"2020-02-27T11:35:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T16:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=20744"},"modified":"2020-02-27T11:35:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T16:35:29","slug":"vaping-news-south-africa-vape-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/20744","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: SOUTH AFRICA [Vape Tax]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"4klmh-0-0\">&#8220;The South African unit of cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc (PM.N) welcomed the government\u2019s decision to introduce a lower excise tax on heated tobacco products than on regular cigarettes. Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni said, in line with Department of Health policy, his government will start taxing heated tobacco products. But he said the rate will be set at 75 per cent that of the tax on cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes, or so-called vapes, will only be taxed from 2021, Mboweni said. In July, Philip Morris opened its first flagship store in Johannesburg in an attempt to boost demand for its \u201creduced risk\u201d heated-tobacco device IQOS. Vapour Products Association of South Africa (VPASA) has raised concerns about the excise for electronic vapor products, saying it will considerably increase the retail price of these electronic products, while at the same time hurting small to medium business owners.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>BILL TARLING &#8212;<\/strong> <em>Tobacco companies support the vape taxes knowing it would eliminate most competition from consumer created vape companies since the smaller consumer companies make more advanced equipment and larger sized e-liquid products which would face much higher cost increases from the taxes than the Tobacco Companies cheaper quick sale versions of vape products.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/us-philip-morris-safrica-tax\/south-african-unit-of-philip-morris-welcomes-tax-stance-on-cigarette-alternatives-idUKKCN20L27V\">South African unit of Philip Morris welcomes tax stance on cigarette alternatives<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20SOUTH%20AFRICA%20%5BVape%20Tax%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The South African unit of cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc (PM.N) welcomed the government\u2019s decision to introduce a lower excise tax on heated tobacco&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaping-news","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20745,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20744\/revisions\/20745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}