烟草在线据葡萄牙新闻报道编译　　在葡萄牙商业联盟CIP提出提议后，葡萄牙烟税在新的一年里可能会上提30%。

　　CIP总裁António Saraiva说：“这个想法得到了总理佩德罗·帕索斯·科埃略（Pedro Passos Coelho）和财政部长加斯帕（Vitor Gaspar）的认可。财政部长承诺要对相关的金额和潜在益处进行分析。”

　　这个问题反映了正在展开的关于国家应该如何在不断收缩的经济里，做不可能做到的提高税收的事情的辩论的内容。

　　迄今为止，烟税收入比去年减少了10.8%，总计为7.39亿欧元，只是预期到8月底时收取到的年税收水平的大约50%。

　　由于烟草消费减少，这仍然使得国库通过烟税到年底时获得13亿欧元的税收，因此，预计税收将增长30%，而使得每年达到大约4亿欧元左右。

　　不过，据南葡萄牙烟草批发商协会主席Joo Passos说，结果不会那么呈线性状态。

　　在预计犯罪和目前造成国家烟草税收减少20%的走私烟草会出现激增之前，Passos说：“烟草生产商目前报告年走私发生率达80%，因此，任何提税肯定会带来结果，尤其是在与西班牙烟草关税的假设性不平衡增大的方面。”

　　与之形成对比的是，在2010年至2011年间激增190%之后，来自对交通违法罚款的国家收入仍继续攀升。

　　2011年前8个月的道路交通违法罚款收入同比增长了18%，超过了6400万欧元，而且总计超过了2010年收取的全部道路交通违法罚款收入的三分之一。

Portugal: Smokers Lined Up As Deficit Scapegoats

　　Tobacco taxes may be subject to a 30 percent hike in the new year following a proposal from the CIP - the Business Confederation of Portugal.

　　"The idea was very well received by Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho and the Minister of Finance, Vitor Gaspar, who promised to analyse the sums involved and the potential benefits," said CIP President António Saraiva.

　　The issue reflects the extent of ongoing debate as to just how the state should square the circle of raising revenues in a contracting economy.

　　Thus far, tobacco tax revenues have slid 10.8 percent on last year to total €739 million, with only 50 percent of the forecast annual level actually collected through to the end of August.

　　With consumption down, this should still see the state pocket somewhere in the region of €1.3 billion from tobacco tax by year-end and a 30 percent rise in tax might therefore be expected to bring in somewhere around €400 million annually.

　　However, according to Joo Passos, the President of Tobacco Wholesalers of South Portugal, the outcome would not be so linear.

　　"Tobacco producers currently report a fiscal incidence level of 80 percent and hence any increase will certainly bring consequence, especially in terms of a greater hypothetical imbalance with Spanish fiscal duties on tobacco", said Passos before forecasting a surge in criminality and the contraband tobacco that currently accounts for a loss of 20 percent in state tobacco revenue.

　　In contrast, state revenues from fines levied for traffic infringements continue to rise after jumping 190 percent between 2010 and 2011.

　　The first eight months of 2011 saw an 18 percent year-on-year rise to exceed €64 million and already total over a third more than the entire amount of road highway traffic fine revenue collected in 2010. Enditem