Whereas documents have shown that British American Tobacco (BAT) is engaged in massive smuggling operation, the Mauritius Revenue Authority signs a protocol with BAT-Mauritius to fight smuggling!!!!
British American Tobacco has been forced to release millions of pages of internal documents as a result of litigation in the
United StatesThese pages contain around 200 internal British American Tobacco (BAT) documents, illustrating the extent of the BAT's involvement in a massive global smuggling operation in Asia, Africa and
Latin America, ensuring that its products are sold cheaply on the black market by evading tobacco taxes.
The documents show BAT orchestrating smuggling through third parties, and treating smuggling as if it is just another distribution channel - with pricing strategy, product launches marketing plans. The documents show that BAT does not do the smuggling itself, but works through middlemen that do the actual smuggling.
Article publié le Mercredi 9 mai 2007
Rs 25 millions
C’est
le montant que représente chaque 1 % de commerce illégal de cigarettes
dans le pays.
D’où la signature, hier, d’un protocole d’accord entre la
Mauritius Revenue Authority et la British American Tobacco Mauritius
(BAT) avec pour objectif de protéger les revenus du gouvernement en
aidant dans la lutte contre le commerce illégal.
La cigarette figure
parmi les produits sujets aux taxes les plus élevées. La BAT est une
des sociétés qui contribuent le plus au niveau des droits d’accises,
soit 6 % des revenus du gouvernement.
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