{"id":880,"date":"2017-06-11T07:35:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T07:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/?p=880"},"modified":"2017-06-11T07:35:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T07:35:45","slug":"cigarette-prices-doubled-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/cigarette-prices-doubled-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarette Prices to be Doubled from Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been hearing news about Tax on Tobacoo to be levied and Cigarette prices to go up in Saudi Arabia. Yes, we were right.\u00a0Saudi Government has decided to implement a selective tax on products that harms a health of a person such as tobacco products, energy drinks, sodas, etc.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-881 aligncenter\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 560 500'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg\" alt=\"Cigarette Prices to be Doubled from Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com\" width=\"560\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a estimation of 6 million smokers in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the tax for all the Smokers will be affected from Sunday (11th June 2017)<\/p>\n<p>Implementation is part of a selective tax agreement the Kingdom signed along with the other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, which was approved by the GCC secretariat last month.<\/p>\n<p>Tax% is levied according to the danger it poses to human health. So, a most harmful product will have a 100% tax and products such as soft drinks will be levied a 50% tax.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is one of a 64th nation out of 127 nations who have increased the price of cigarettes and Cigarette prices will be <strong>doubled<\/strong> since <strong>Sunday<\/strong> (<strong>11th june 2017<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been hearing news about Tax on Tobacoo to be levied and Cigarette prices to go up in Saudi Arabia. Yes, we were right.\u00a0Saudi Government has decided to implement [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/cigarette-prices-doubled-sunday\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[406],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-saudi-arabia-news","8":"tag-cigarette-prices-in-saudi"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",560,500,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_-300x268.jpg",300,268,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",560,500,false],"large":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",560,500,false],"bimber-grid-xs":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",108,96,false],"bimber-grid-xs-2x":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",215,192,false],"bimber-grid-standard-2x":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",458,409,false],"bimber-list-s":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",208,186,false],"bimber-list-s-2x":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",416,371,false],"bimber-grid-2of3":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",560,500,false],"menu-24x24":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",24,21,false],"menu-36x36":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",36,32,false],"menu-48x48":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",48,43,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",560,500,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",96,86,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",150,134,false],"bimber-grid-standard":["https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cigarette-Prices-to-be-Doubled-from-Sunday-SaudiExpatriate.com_.jpg",230,205,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"shafprince","author_link":"https:\/\/saudiexpatriate.com\/author\/shafprince\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"We have been hearing news about Tax on Tobacoo to be levied and Cigarette prices to go up in Saudi Arabia. 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