Sampoerna Criticizes Plan on New Cigarette Tax

Source from:  The Jakarta Post 05/31/2009

Cigarette producer PT HM Sampoerna criticized the government plan to increase tax on cigarettes in a new regulation. "This will double taxes and will burden us because we have already paid tax," Sampoerna communications director Niken Rachmad told journalist on Wednesday. She said that other cigarette producers had also expressed their objections to the plan. "The process takes time, but we have expressed our objections with the cigarette producer's association," Niken said. She said Sampoerna had yet to decide whether to increase cigarette prices if the new tax was approved. (naf) Enditem