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  • Jul 13

    German coalition plans sharper tobacco tax hike, pushing cigarette packs toward €12 by 2030

    The black-red coalition wants to raise the tobacco tax more steeply than the cabinet decided last week, adding roughly 40 cents per pack and targeting €4.4 billion in extra annual revenue by 2030.

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