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Press Releases in category "Taxation"
March 2008
13/03/2008 ASH welcomes announcement on new government anti-smuggling strategy but tax rise not high enough.
February 2008
08/02/2008 Tobacco smuggling treaty holds the key to big cut in smoking deaths.
March 2007
21/03/2007 ASH Budget reaction: Tax reduction on stop smoking products will increase quitting prospects.
04/03/2007 Public demand Chancellor puts up tobacco tax in Budget
November 2006
23/11/2006 ECJ ruling on Internet sales - public health disaster averted.
March 2006
22/03/2006 Budget 2006 and smoking: Bad news for public health?
20/03/2006 Budget 2006 and Smoking: What it Will Say and What it Should Say
16/03/2005 Budget response: Tax rise welcomed but more action needed to tackle smuggling.
11/03/2005 Budget 2005: Tobacco tax and smuggling
11/03/2004 Budget 2004: What it will say and what it should say
October 2003
20/10/2003 Blow to bootleggers welcomed - but what about the Big Boys?
April 2003
04/04/2003 Budget 2003: Chancellor should raise tobacco tax and use revenue to help smokers quit
03/04/2003 Budget 2003: Chancellor should raise tobacco tax and use revenue to help smokers quit.
17/04/2002 Tobacco: Wanless delivers, Chancellor doesn't
February 2002
05/02/2002 'Defensive and reactionary' Imperial Tobacco face hard questions at AGM
December 2001
18/12/2001 HM Customs press release rejecting Commission comlaints about tobacco smuggling strategy
18/12/2001 Ministers swat away European Commission meddling on anti tobacco smuggling strategy
October 2001
24/10/2001 European Commission sides with tobacco smugglers against UK Customs
March 2001
09/03/2001 Cutting tax would not reduce smuggling: letter to FT
07/03/2001 Budget: tobacco tax policy stalls in shameless but predictable electioneering
05/03/2001 ASH pre-budget comment
February 2001
20/02/2001 ASH scornful of tobacco industry calls for reduced tobacco tax to tackle smuggling
January 2001
March 2000
21/03/2000 Tobacco tax: budget is 'just what the Doctor ordered'
16/03/2000 UK health groups call for radical tobacco tax budget
January 2000
31/01/2000 BAT involved in smuggling
November 1999
09/11/1999 Chancellor's pledge to give tobacco tax to the NHS will be money well spent
07/11/1999 Smuggling increasing: capitulation to organised crime or continue with good health?
May 1999
04/05/1999 Tory U-turn on tobacco tax would spell disaster for public health
March 1999
09/03/1999 Budget tobacco tax: great for health, good for the economy & no cave-in to smugglers
01/03/1999 Chancellor urged to increase tobacco tax & ignore tobacco industry smokescreen
November 1998
30/11/1998 Cigarette tax rise: don't let good health & tax policy be diverted by smugglers
September 1998
08/09/1998 Cigarette taxes and smoking bans are fair & sensible: smokers don't have equal rights!
April 1998
22/04/1998 Tobacco smuggling: Customs clampdown better than tax climbdown
March 1998
26/03/1998 Latest smoking rates show young people still hooked on positive image of smoking
July 1997
02/07/1997 ASH welcomes cigarette tax hike
November 1996
26/11/1996 Chancellor heeds health calls on cigarettes
