45 billion on a wind

Strange business, in the country financial crisis, and 45 billion the tenges literally rolling on the earth, nobody wishes to bend and pick up!
The coalition “For Kazakhstan, free from a tobacco smoke”, 720 organisations uniting more and 42 000 physical persons, has addressed to the president of the country with the video reference. Members of a coalition urge to raise tobacco excises. Till now the foreign tobacco companies completely supervising manufacture of cigarettes in Kazakhstan, happily got off with only cosmetic increase in the taxation.
According to a coalition, for last four years the quantity of smokers in the country has increased with 22,6 to 30 percent from all population, mainly at the expense of occurrence of nicotinic dependence at children and teenagers. Every eighth schoolboy smokes.
The main reason of youthful smoking - it is paradoxical the low prices for cigarettes which become more accessible than sweets and soft drinks. The prices, in turn, are defined by the superpreferential taxation of the tobacco companies - manufacturers of cigarettes give to Kazakhstan in the form of excises only 12 tenges for a pack of cigarettes. For comparison: in the European Union countries the excise makes 2,02 euros, or 451 tenges for a pack plus of 57 percent of a surtax from a retail price.
In Russia the excise on tobacco is indexed annually and has already reached in recalculation on rouble 96 tenges on a pack, that is on the average 54 percent of its cost price. In Ukraine the taxation of the tobacco companies has been sharply increased in 2008 that has allowed to redistribute the received means for pensions and wages.
At us have gone even on such extremely unpopular measure as a delay of increase of the salary to doctors and teachers, but for some reason preserve the tobacco companies. Meanwhile increase of the excise to 40 tenges on a pack of cigarettes would allow to receive to 45 billion tenge of additional tax gathering and to solve many social problems.
In 2008 increase of tobacco excises already was on the agenda in the parliament senate, and only one voice contra - 19 against 18 - has allowed manufacturers of cigarettes to get off light. Now, when tobacco smoking distribution to Kazakhstan has grown into an epidemic, the adequate taxation of the tobacco companies is “that the doctor has registered”.
Two in one - to rescue from a smoky infection of children and to rescue social expenses of the country. When it still to do, if not now?