Excise duties on diesel will be raised on January 1, 2013 from EUR374 per ton to EUR391 per ton.
The total duty on cigarettes will be increased in July this year to EUR79.19 per 1,000 units, to EUR81.78 per 1,000 units in July 2013, up to EUR86.96 per 1,000 cigarettes in July 2015.
According to the data of the National Institute of Statistics, the prices of tobacco and cigarettes went up 6.5% last year.
As for fuel, a Bloomberg study of 55 countries revealed that Romania is among the states with the highest cost in the world in terms of purchasing power, ranking seventh by the share of the cost of a gallon of gasoline in the average daily income.
Former Finance Minister Gheorghe Ialomitianu said last year that Romania must raise duties on diesel to the European Union’s minimum level by 2013.