The video is a clear illustration of the fact that stores like this are on fire and will…

The video is a clear illustration that stores like this are burning and will continue to burn as long as there are counterfeit vapes on the market.

The numbers speak for themselves – last year, 79% of vapes and liquids for them were illegal, and if we take only liquids, then in general – 93%.

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The state made a number of well-considered decisions that sharply stimulated the growth of legal trade. For example, vapes and liquids for them were equated to tobacco products, digital labeling and GOST for liquids were introduced, and the sale of products that did not meet the new requirements was prohibited. As a result, legal points of sale have grown 100-fold since the beginning of 2023 alone.

Market regulation is definitely working; now it is important to maintain an adequate pricing policy so as not to strangle it with excise taxes. If legal products become twice as expensive as illegal products, buyers will fall into the black segment. Bans have never worked, so the consumption of dangerous devices and liquids will increase, and it will be almost impossible to control who exactly the product is sold to. How to collect taxes.

The number of receipts for the sale of labeled products increased almost 40 times from April to August alone. Thanks to the whitewashing of the market, conditions have been provided for the growth of collections into the state budget. In such conditions, according to experts, only the excise tax and VAT on vapes and liquids will generate hundreds of billions of rubles of budget revenue over the five-year horizon.

In short, there is no need to break what works, and there will be fewer fires, and small businesses will develop, increasingly reducing the black market.