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Robert McIntyre, director of the progressive Citizens for Tax Justice, acknowledged that while the tobacco tax increase was “probably the biggest one in the bunch,” he said it was outweighed by Obama’s expansion of the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit.
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The company’s pre-tax profit rose from ��2.12 billion to ��2.28 billion and revenue after duty and taxes was 8 per cent higher at ��7.3 billion, with the weakness of sterling boosting revenue by four percentage points. The company sold 348 billion cigarettes in the half, down only one billion on last year, helped by the acquisition of Indonesian tobacco company PT Bentoel.
Like-for-like volumes fell 3 per cent, hit by steep excise increases in Romania and Turkey. British American Tobacco (Kenya) is diversifying into the export of semi-processed tobacco after investing Sh350 million in a processing plant to increase its revenue sources. The firm, which begun exporting the leaf this month, has plants in South Africa, Nigeria, Turkey and Kenya serving its Middle East and African markets.
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