In a break with recent practice, there were no tax increases for alcohol this year.
However, smokers have been hit with yet another price rise — bringing the price of a pack of twenty to €10 for the first time.
If you’re an average smoker — and we’re taking ’23 a day’ as the average intake here — your habit will now cost you around €4,000 a year. There’s no escaping the tax either — it was one of a raft of measures that came into effect at midnight.
But where does all that money go?
The folks at publicpolicy.ie have been looking at the numbers…
Source: Daragh Brophy, thejournal.ie, 15/10/14
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