Press release No. 404 of 16 October 2019
WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the quantity of cigarettes on which tax was paid in Germany increased by 2.2% in the third quarter of 2019 compared with the same quarter a year earlier. The total value of tobacco products in terms of retail prices on which tax was paid in Germany in the third quarter of 2019 amounted to 7.4 billion euros. That was an increase of 0.3 billion euros or 4.8% from the corresponding period of the preceding year.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Taxation of tobacco products: Germany, years (73411-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.
