OREANDA-NEWS. October 17, 2012. Belarus has adopted a new edition of the Tax Code, which introduces new excise rates for all products subject to excise taxation in 2013, including tobacco and tobacco products.

Excise rates cigarettes are set for six-month periods.

Excise rates for filter-tipped cigarettes (per 1,000 units), price group 1:

priced up to 250,000 (USD 29.17)– 60,200 rubles in H1, 2013; priced up to Br325,000 – Br100,400 in H2, 2013.

price group 3:

- priced between 250,000 rubles and 400,000 rubles – 140,600 rubles in H1, 2013; between 325,000 rubles and 450,000 rubles – Br160,600 in H2, 2013.

price group 2:

- priced over 400,000 rubles160,600 rubles in H1, 2013; over 450,000 rubles – Br180,600 in H2, 2013.

Smoking tobacco and pipe tobacco (per kilogram) – Br206.300 – in H1, 2013; Br233,800 in H2, 2012.

cigars (per unit) - Br12.000 in H1, 2013, Br13,600 in H2, 2012;

cigarillos (per 1,000 units) – Br179,000 in H1 and Br203,400 in H2.