Vietnam Wants to Raise Tobacco Taxes – Tobacco Reporter

Vietnam’s finance ministry want to raise the excise duty on cigarettes and add an absolute rate per pack, reports Tuoi Tre News.

The current excise duty on tobacco in Vietnam is 75 percent of the factory price but only 38.8 percent of the retail price, according to the World Health Organization.

This share is much lower than in Singapore, where tax accounts for 69 percent of the cigarette retail prices, or Thailand, where it is 70 percent.

To protect public health, the ministry has proposed two solutions. The first involves keeping the 75 percent excise tax unchanged in 2026 but adding an additional tax of VND2,000 ($0.07) per pack.

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