Traditionally, tax incidence is used to evaluate the tax burden of cigarettes which is the percentage of cigarette turnover tax over its retail price. In order to examine China’s cigarette tax incidence, we choose Zhonghua (hard), Yunyan (purple), Baisha (hard), Hongmei, Dafengshou as representative brands for Class I - Class V cigarettes respectively, all these 5 brands are popular to Chinese smokers and have big market share. We use allocation price, wholesale price and retail price of each brand in 2008 to calculate cigarettes turnover tax and tax incidence in 2008.
Premise:
Excise tax rate (): 45% for Grade A cigarettes, 30% for Grade B cigarettes
Specific tax: 0.06 RMB per pack
Tax rate of VAT (Rtvat): 17%
Tax rate of urban maintenance and construction tax and additional educational fee (Rtc&e): 10%
Formula:
Class I cigarette -- Zhonghua (hard)
Allocation price: 16 RMB/pack (VAT not inclusive)
Wholesale price: 37 RMB/pack (VAT inclusive)
Retail price: 40 RMB/pack (VAT inclusive)
Class II cigarette -- Yunyan (purple)
Allocation price: 5 RMB/pack (VAT not inclusive)
Wholesale price: 8.5RMB/pack (VAT inclusive);
Retail price: 10 RMB/pack (VAT inclusive)
Class III cigarette -- Baisha (hard)
Allocation price: 3.35RMB/pack (VAT inclusive)
3.35÷(1+17%)=2.86RMB/pack (VAT not inclusive)
Wholesale price: 4.50RMB/pack (VAT inclusive)
Retail price: 5.00 RMB/pack (VAT inclusive)
Class IV cigarette -- Hongmei
Allocation price: 2.57RMB/pack (VAT not inclusive)
Wholesale price: 3.6RMB/pack (VAT inclusive)
Retail price: 4 RMB/pack (VAT inclusive)
Class V cigarette -- Dafengshou
Allocation price: 1.34RMB/pack (VAT not inclusive)
Wholesale price: 1.8RMB/pack (VAT inclusive)
Retail price: 2.5 RMB/pack (VAT inclusive)
Rong Zheng* Song Gao†
Central University of Finance and Economics
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Cigarettes Tax Incidence with Several Representative Brands
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