3030年7月5日

英国电子烟工业协会（UKVIA）呼吁英国政府在计算增值税（VAT）时将电子烟产品视为尼古丁替代治疗（NRT）。

有报道称，财政大臣考虑降低增值税税率以刺激新冠疫情后的经济发展之时，发出了这一呼吁。

UKVIA在致财政部长的信中敦促政府考虑建立NRT和电子烟产品的公平竞争环境，以帮助原本不会戒烟的成年吸烟者改用电子烟。

这封信指出最近的英国公共卫生报告发现，当单独使用电子烟产品或与许可药物一起使用电子烟产品时，成功率可与单独使用NRT相当或更高。

UKVIA的主管约翰·邓恩说，电子烟行业是本世纪零售业的主要成功案例，并且在促使吸烟者戒烟方面发挥着重要作用，从而帮助降低了与吸烟有关的医疗保健的年度成本。

他说：“但是，根据研究，几乎有十分之一的吸烟者不改用电子烟，因为他们认为电子烟的价格太高了。” “确保电子烟产品的价格仍远低于传统卷烟，对于继续鼓励英国约700万吸烟者（否则他们不戒烟）做出改变至关重要。”

UKVIA Wants Tax Parity With NRTs for Vapor

July 5, 3030

The U.K. Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) is calling on the U.K. government to treat vapor products as nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) when calculating value-added tax (VAT).

The call comes amid reports that the Chancellor of the Exchequer considering reducing the VAT rates to stimulate the economy in the wake of the coronavirus.

In a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the UKVIA urges the government to consider a level playing field for NRT and vapor products to help adult smokers who would otherwise not quit smoking switch to vaping.

The letter points to the recent Public Health England report that found that when vapor products were used to quit, either alone or with licensed medication, success rates were comparable to, or higher than, when using NRTs alone.

John Dunne, director at UKVIA, said the vapor sector has been a major retail success story this century and is playing a major role in getting smokers to quit, thereby helping cut the annual cost of healthcare associated with smoking.

“Yet according to research nearly one in 10 smokers do not switch to e-cigarettes because they considered them to cost too much,” he said. “Ensuring that the price of vaping products remains much lower than cigarettes is vitally important in continuing to encourage the some 7 million smokers in the U.K., who otherwise do not quit, to make the switch.”