Text file: 1863.txt
author: Ddam
downvotes: 3
end consideration date: 2011-07-01
id: '1863'
number comments: 26
number views: 5528
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Health\nSlovenia is governed by the principle\
  \ of the integrity of the state budget, which is enshrined in the Constitution of\
  \ the Republic of Slovenia and the Public Finance Act, according to which all state\
  \ revenues and expenditures to finance public spending must be covered by the budget.\
  \ The money from the State budget is distributed on a programme-by-programme basis.\
  \ Each year, the Ministry of Health prepares a health protection and health education\
  \ programme, on the basis of which it receives certain funds for the implementation\
  \ of preventive activities in the field of public health.\nWe at the Ministry of\
  \ Health will strive to obtain as much funding as possible within the national budget\
  \ to finance public health, and we see an opportunity to further increase taxes\
  \ on tobacco products, which will also indirectly contribute to increasing funding\
  \ for prevention in the health sector.   \n \nResponse from the Ministry of Finance\n\
  With the entry into force of the amendment to the Excise Duty Act in April 2010,\
  \ excise duties on cigarettes were increased to \u20AC77 per thousand. This law\
  \ also foresees further semi-annual increases, so that the excise duty will reach\
  \ \u20AC90 per thousand pieces as of 1 January 2014. Under this law, the excise\
  \ duty on cigarettes rose to \u20AC80 on 1 April this year and will rise to \u20AC\
  83 on 1 October 2011. Such gradual, multiple, small increases have proven to be\
  \ more effective in practice than a one-off, large increase (especially in terms\
  \ of preventing the growth of the black market).\nAs regards the proposal to earmark\
  \ the funds thus collected (contribution to health), we would stress that excise\
  \ duties are not and should not be defined as earmarked revenue, but are and should\
  \ be revenue of the integral budget. This is to prevent the direct or automatic\
  \ linking of certain budget receipts to certain expenditure, and thus to prevent\
  \ only certain direct budget users from being entitled to certain receipts already\
  \ earmarked in advance."
response date: 2011-07-15
response due date: null
sent date: 2011-06-01
title: Smokers and insurance companies
upvotes: 11
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/1863
