Higher excise on sparkling wines generates 25 million euro annual losses
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Romania has lost approximately 25 million euros each year owing to higher excise taxes on wine-based sparkling beverages, the National Business Association of Vines and Wineries (PNVV) estimated in a plea for a zero excise for these products.'The market plummeted since 2010, and we [Romania] got from revenues of 27 million euros per year in excise on intermediate beverages to roughly one million euros. Increasing the excise aimed at higher revenues, but we ...