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Ref No: 2100085
Grade: No grade
Contractual Arrangement: Special Services Agreement (SSA)
Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days): 2 months
Objectives of the Programme
Article 6 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control highlights the importance of price and tax measures as an effective and important means of reducing tobacco consumption. These measures not only improve public health and reduce health care costs but also generate revenues in the process.
Nigeria took an important step by introducing a specific tax (of 20N per pack) on cigarettes in June 2018, in addition to the already existing ad valorem tax (of 20% of the retail price before ad valorem and VAT). Nevertheless, there is still room to increase excise tax rates on tobacco products further. The total tax share as part of the retail price of the most popular brand of cigarettes in Nigeria is 29.7% and thereby substantially lower than in the WHO AFRO region (42.2%) and at the global level (60.8%). Moreover, Nigeria would have to increase its excise tax rates on tobacco products to comply with the ECOWAS directive which provides for a minimum ad valorem of 50% and a specific tax of 0.02 $ per stick of cigarettes.
WHO has been providing technical support to many countries globally to reform their tobacco tax polices so as to achieve the recommendations of WHO that tobacco excise taxes account for at least 70% of the retail price. To monitor and evaluate the implementation of increases of excise tax rates on tobacco products a baseline needs to be established. This baseline will also provide the necessary information to assess the impact of future increases on the prices, consumption and revenues.
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