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Replacing the cigarette lockdown prohibition with excise increases would compound the devastating damage of the past four months, says BAT-SA. In view: Police bust of cigarettes being traded in contravention of the lockdown ban. (file image)Image: Saps
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Piling more tax on legal cigarettes ‘a gift to criminal suppliers’

Significant new resources need to be allocated to revenue service Sars to ensure that the legal cigarette market can be taken back from criminals in the aftermath of the lockdown smoking ban, says cigarette maker BAT South Africa. “These…

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MONSTER IN THE MAKING: Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw, right, in conversation with financial journalist Bruce Whitfield, during a webinar facilitated by financial services group PSG on the illegal cigarette trade and how it has flourished during the lockdownImage: SCREENSHOT
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Criminal cigarette networks ‘empowered’

The illegal cigarette trade is nothing new but supply and demand has made it far more profitable during the country’s ban on the sale of tobacco products. This view was shared by top investigative journalist Jacques Pauw on Tuesday during…

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