GERMANY TOBACCO ROLLS
July 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Germany with legal action at the European Court of Justice over its taxing of rolls of tobacco - inserted by smokers into separately-sold paper tubes with filters - at a lower rate than for standard cigarettes. The German government claims that these products should be regarded as fine-cut tobacco, (for which a lower rate of duty applies), while Brussels is insisting that they should be classified as regular cigarettes and taxed as such. It claims that article 4(1) of directive 95/59/EEC on ...
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