As stipulated by the current legal provisions, excise duties on tobacco are increased every year, at least 15 fening per cigarette pack.
According to information from ITA BiH, the amount of fixed excises was increased by 1.2 BAM per cigarette box in the period from 2009 to 2017. Revenues from excise duties in the first year of collection amounted to a total of 449.4 million BAM, and they are further increased every year. Last year, they were doubled and amounted to 807.7 million BAM.
Due to this large increase in tobacco excises, the black market of tobacco and tobacco processing appeared in BiH, which led to numerous actions by police agencies and tax inspectors.
(Source: A. D./Klix.ba)