From January 1, in Russia, the minimum price of tobacco products will be 112 rubles, the calculation conducted the Ministry of Agriculture on the basis of the minimum value of the excise rate to the cigarette pack, the value-added tax rate (VAT) and the raising coefficient.
In 2021, the minimum price was 108 rubles per pack of 20 pieces. Cigarettes have already grown in price. So, on average, the price of one pack increased by 12.4 percent – from 120.8 rubles in 2020 to 135.8 rubles in the first half of the 2021th.
Over the past five years, the Russian budget has laid hundreds of billions of rubles due to large volumes of illegal tobacco products. To this conclusion earlier, the Accounts Chamber came.
Total loss since 2016, auditors rated at 295.6 billion rubles, of which 246.3 billion falls on the underwent tobacco excise tax, and the rest is the value added tax, which was not paid. The Independent International Agency Kantar TNS Russia estimates the share of illegal sales of cigarettes in Russia in 2021 by 10.7 percent.