This price increase occurs because the company Massalin Particulares, which manages the main cigarette brands in the country.
The cigarettes increased 30% starting this Saturday and the box is already selling from $1,000 to $2,000. The value varies depending on whether the consumer chooses a first, second or third brand. time to buy the product.
This price increase occurs because the company Massalin Particulares, which manages the main cigarette brands in the country such as Marlboro, Philip Morris, Chesterfield and Harmony, decided to increase the price of its products by 30%. It is the company’s first price increase in 2024, since the last one, which was on December 15 with 24%.
If the increases in both months are added, Massalin cigarettes increased 54% on average.
What are the prices of cigarette packs?
- Regular Marlboro: $1,770;
- Marlboro box: $1970;
- Marlboro Crafted, SP version: $1,240;
- Common Philip Morris: $1,540;
- Philip Morris box: $1770;
- Common Chesterfield: $1,220;
- Chesterfield box: $1470.
“Omnibus law”: the Government wants to raise the tax on cigarettes
The Government sent to Congress the “omnibus law” that includes hundreds of modifications with a direct impact on the lives of Argentines. One of them will be, if approved, in aincrease in cigarette prices due to the increase of a tax.
The project establishes that the internal tax on cigarettes would rise from 70% to 73%. That additional will be passed on to the consumer.
“Cigarettes, both domestically produced and imported, will be taxed on the sales price to the consumer, including taxes, except for the value added tax, a tax of seventy-three percent (73%),” the letter says.
Along these lines, he adds: “Cigarettes of national or foreign production must be sold in packages or packaging in the conditions and forms regulated by the national Executive Branch.”
Source: Ambito
