Minister Salvini and the Electronic Cigarette Tax
Minister Salvini and the Electronic Cigarette Tax
Minister Salvini and the Electronic Cigarette Tax Finally, he begins to move something (or rather, someone) in the panorama of Vaping in Italy. These are the statements of Vice Premier Matteo Salvini: "We talked about it this morning and we will present an amendment to the Di Maio Decree. We have already quantified the costs." In practice: the consumption tax and the previous debt of the vaping companies will be object of an armored amendment that will change the so-called Decree Dignity that between today and tomorrow should be published in the Official Gazette.
It has not entered into detail, because the text and the measures are still being examined by the parliamentary group in concert with the economists of the League, but now the much disputed tax seems to have come to an end.
The process is rather simple. The decree signed by Deputy Prime Minister Di Maio will be retouched by a maxi amendment of the League to the Chamber on 24 July. Once modified, the text will pass to the Senate where it should be submitted to a vote of confidence, so it should not have problems to be definitively converted into law.
The declaration issued to Sigmagazine rekindles the flame of hope and optimism for the thousands of vaping operators who in the last few months have seen their turnover fall to 40%. It also rekindles hope for the manufacturing companies that could thus remodel and renegotiate the debt in a reduced form, even though they have never cashed the consumption tax that the State now asks them to pay.
A date and a content. Twelve days are left. The countdown can begin. Hoping it's the right time.