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SA cigarette market a free-for-all for crooks, with billions going up in smoke, BATSA claims

SA cigarette market a free-for-all for crooks, with billions going up in smoke, BATSA claims
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BATSA accused of terrorist funding, ciggie smuggling

BATSA accused of terrorist funding, ciggie smuggling
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Bring it on, says defiant BATSA to calls for probe into illicit tobacco trade

But on Monday BATSA responded by pointing fingers right back at FITA and SATO. In a statement, FITA said it would welcome an inquiry, adding that this was likely the best mechanism to find the real traders of illegal cigarettes. The tobacco giant said cigarette brands of FITA and SATO members, including Remington Gold, were, by far, the most likely to be found on sale illegally in the country , since the lockdown paved a way for criminal cartels to ruthlessly exploit the country’s tobacco sales ban. The FITA/SATO coalition say they want an investigation. So, let’s have one, said BATSA General Manager Johnny Moloto in a statement.

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2 out of every 3 cigarettes sold in SA are illicit, report estimates

Getty Images Tax Justice SA has issued a report in the flourishing illicit cigarette industry in South Africa. TJSA founder Yusuf Abramjee says illicit cigarette sales are costing government billions of rands in unpaid taxes. Vendors appear not to fear law enforcement and many seem not to know or care about the minimum tax threshold. The sale of illicit, tax-evading cigarettes has become endemic across South Africa in the wake last year’s 5-month Covid-19 lockdown blanket ban on tobacco trade, according to an undercover investigation and subsequent report by Tax Justice SA (TJSA). TJSA’s undercover team visited over 40 mainstream retail and wholesale outlets across Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban to secretly film cigarettes being sold at a price below the minimum tax that must be paid on them by law.

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