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October 29, 2008

Tobacco taxation in African Countries (alphabetical order)

On page 188 of the M-POWER report (pdf format) there is a column about taxation in African countries:
Here they are in alphabetical order:
Algeria: 49%  Angola: 10%
Benin: 2% Botswana: 30%  Burkina Faso: 12%  Burundi: 41%
Cameroon: 20%  Cape Verde: 20%
Central African Republic: 16%  Chad: 18%  Comoros: 71%  Congo: 16%  Cote d'Ivoire: 35% RDC: 27%
Equatorial Guinea: 19%  Eritrea: 47% (corrected to excise tax: 100% + sales tax: 12%)  Ethiopia: 32%
Gabon: 30%  Gambia: 15%  Guinea: 32%
Kenya: 28%
Lesotho: 46%  Liberia: 14%
Madagascar: 47% Malawi: 49%  Mali: 15%  Mauritanie: 26%  Mauritius: 69%  Mozambique: 36%
Niger: 29%  Nigeria: 28%
Rwanda: 50%
Sao Tome: 52%  Senegal: 21%  Seychelles: 79%  Sierra Leone: 20%  South Africa: 32% (corrected to 52%)  Swaziland: 20%
Togo: 15%
Uganda: 56%
Tanzania: 20%
Zambia: 46%  (reduced to 30%) Zimbabwe: 34%

Posted at 11:38 AM in MPOWER report |

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