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Ireland’s Disposable Vape Market Is Booming, but a Vaping Tax May Be Coming

Key point: After Latvia in Eastern Europe, Ireland in Western Europe is also moving toward a vaping tax. However, Ireland plans to start in 2025, leaving at least one year of transition time...

From Latvia in Eastern Europe to Ireland in Western Europe today, electronic atomization taxes have also begun to be levied.

However, Ireland starts in 2025, and there is still at least one year to buffer from now。Ireland is also the most aggressive country at a time.

It seems that the European system's tax collection of electronic atomization may become a trend. The root cause may be brought about once, because one sentence was specifically said,"The use of electronic atomization by young people has exploded, and the one-time appearance has further promoted this trend. We cannot delay collecting this tax any longer."

According to Overseas Buzz website reports Message, in Ireland's 2024 budget will tax electronic atomization starting in 2025. Irish Finance Minister Michael McGrath confirmed the news. At the same time, Ireland will also raise cigarette prices, which will stimulate consumers to switch to electronic atomization in another way. At the same time, according to Ireland's proposal, each milliliter of electronic atomizationsmoke oilTaxes increased by 10 cents. This means that the price of disposable electronic atomizers will usually increase by 25%, or 2 euros per device.



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McGrath said at the conference that the total budget in 2024 will reach 14 billion euros. The budget increases cigarette taxes by 75 euro cents and raises the price of cigarette packs at the most popular price range to 16.75 euros. Other tobacco products will also rise proportionately. This is the eighth consecutive year that cigarette tax has been increased, but this increase is the largest during this period. The tax on a pack of 20 cigarettes has increased by 50 euro cents each time over the past seven years. Ireland (IHF) believes that it hopes to increase the price of a pack of cigarettes to 20 euros by 2025 in this way, as a way to combat the increasing number of young people smoking.

e-cigarettesOn the one hand, Ireland's 2025 budget will impose a domestic tax on electronic atomization products and use this tax to stop the trend of young people using electronic atomization. At the same time, McGrath told the House when the budget was announced that "my department and the tax department need to do a lot of preparation work when drafting this legislation." He also said,"The current legislation banning the sale of electronic atomization to young people under the age of 18 has been postponed for many years, and we still don't know when it will be implemented. There should be no unnecessary delay in the collection of electronic atomization tax。And more than half of EU member states already impose additional taxes on electronic aerosols to protect children's health."

But will not unduly punish people who use electronic atomization as a method of quitting smoking.

Currently Ireland Nearly 8 euros at a time. For young people, the cost of using electronic atomization is almost half that of smoking.

From this point of view, in Ireland, a pack of cigarettes is 16 euros, but only 8 euros at a time. This price is different.

Ireland, with a population of more than 5 million, a Western European country bordering Northern Ireland in the northeast and is basically a neighbor of the United Kingdom. What is interesting is that this is a highly developed capitalist country with an average annual salary of as high as 60,000 euros, far higher than the EU level, excellent welfare and a broad electronic atomization consumer market. This country also has a strong drinking culture, love beer and whiskey, love music and dance, all of which are typical examples of the consumption of e-cigarettes.

Currently Ireland one-time Super Fire. According to data, 1.3 million pieces are discarded at one time every week. This country highly recognizes electronic atomization, and 1 in 10 people is a user. In particular, a quarter of Irish people aged 25 to 34 have tried electronic atomization.

But currently 70% of the people in this country oppose one-time use. It is expected that the category of electronic atomization will also change in the future. Prohibition of one-time use, including taste restrictions, is also being discussed. Even the European Union has a resolution that may ban one-time use by 2027.

Now it seems that Ireland is also strengthening electronic atomization taxes, using tax rates to increase one-time prices, but they also mentioned one point, I don't want to crack down on electronic atomization for smokers. It is also expected that the European market will have more stable development in the future, and higher requirements will be put forward for the development of electronic atomization.

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