{"id":987654103,"date":"2021-02-23T03:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T02:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/tobacco-tax-low-taxation-denounced-by-an-ngo-in-cote-divoire\/"},"modified":"2023-10-05T05:02:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T04:02:39","slug":"tobacco-tax-low-taxation-denounced-by-an-ngo-in-cote-divoire","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/tobacco-tax-low-taxation-denounced-by-an-ngo-in-cote-divoire\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco tax: low taxation denounced by an NGO in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Club universitaire Unesco pour la lutte contre la drogue et autres pand\u00e9mies (Clucod) crie haro sur la taxe sur la consommation du tabac at a press conference. The Ivorian NGO held a press conference in February to denounce the low&nbsp;taxation in force in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire. For Tall Lacina, President of Clucod, this rate of 46%&nbsp;is still far from the community standards of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (Uemoa) and the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas).<\/p>\n<p>The lecturer relies on&nbsp;directive n\u00b001\/2017\/CM\/Uemoa of December 2017 harmonizing the legislation of member states on excise duties applicable to tobacco, indeed recommends that the rate of excise duties on tobacco should be between 50% and 150%.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fratmat.info\/article\/211218\/societe\/lutte-contre-la-drogue\/taxe-sur-la-consommation-du-tabac-une-ong-denonce-la-faible-imposition-en-cote-divoire\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Club universitaire Unesco pour la lutte contre la drogue et autres pand\u00e9mies (Clucod) crie haro sur la taxe sur la consommation du tabac at a press conference. The Ivorian NGO held a press conference in February to denounce the low&nbsp;taxation in force in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire. For Tall Lacina, President of Clucod, this rate of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":987531351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[115,130],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987654103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987654103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987654103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987654113,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987654103\/revisions\/987654113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987654103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987654103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987654103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}