Why doesn't Karol Nawrocki want to sign the law on raising excise work on alcohol? The current president in the election run swore that he would veto any bill that would presume taxation increases - so he is consistent in this. However, it is worth noting that the thought itself began during the reign of his party. But first things first.
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Raised excise duties on alcohol is not news. It's already been accepted as the PiS Excise Map
The bill presented by the MF assumes a 15% increase in excise work on alcohol in 2026 and another 10% increase in the following year. Why specified numbers? most likely from the analysis of the effectiveness of the Excise Map. If we divide Poles here into supporters of the Law and Justice and the ruling coalition, we can stir things up rather well in the full case. It turns out that the task of raising the excise work on alcohol is not new. Already during the reign of the Law and Justice in 2021, the Excise Map was adopted, which assumed a gradual increase in excise duties of 5% between 2023 and 2027. However, as we read on the website of the National Centre against Addiction, this amount was disproportionate to the increase in inflation and wages of Poles - it did not reduce the economical availability of alcohol. That's why she won't let the increase in consumption stop. Given, for example, beer, the data is shocking.
Still in 2019 for the average wage you could buy 866 litres of beer [...]. After 5 years it was already 1109 litres of beer [...]. Data indicates 28-percent. increased availability of beer
- read on the KCPU website. possibly this is why it was decided to multiply the proposed increase in excise duty. To just make the full procedure work. Is there a chance? What do Poles think about this? There were quite a few voices on both sides of the network. any say that raising excise duties will not reduce the alcohol problem, but will only be a form of "flashing the budget hole" of the state. According to others, all form of fighting alcoholism is good, and taxation money goes to the needs of citizens anyway.
Raise excise work on alcohol? "In many homes vodka is treated like bread"
How do my callers look at this? Is raising excise work likely to reduce the desire to scope for a glass or a pint? And here there were no opposing opinions. - I think they should lift it and times three. It's not a first-aid article. The comic thing is that beer in the 12+12 ferry is cheaper than bread, says 1 of the people I talked about. The another conviction is similar: - On unhealthy things they can impose large taxes, due to the fact that if it helps even 1 person, it is simply a success. Saying he won't have an alcoholic for bread, due to the fact that he'll gotta spend more on booze, he won't get to me.
I'm not buying that we'll rise the price and the problem will go away. In my opinion, if individual has an alcohol problem, they will find a way to get it, whether it costs PLN 8 or PLN 10. Unfortunately, in many homes vodka is treated equally as bread, flour, pasta. Whatever it costs, people will buy
- says my next caller.
I wonder how long you can rise prices to have real effects. I mean, it won't always have effect, due to the fact that at any point the intake will decision into the grey area. Even if we wanted to, we wouldn't reduce consumption in society to zero. I do not know whether it is in Sweden or Finland to restrict the sale of alcohol after 1 hr and say Swedes/Fins are buying contraband from truckers from Poland - another individual adds.
- Why, erstwhile you propose specified solutions, it's all about people with alcohol problems? - It's apparent that a individual like that will only aid the treatment that, by the way, as much as the state would not try, must want to go. It is besides about prevention before individual develops an alcohol problem. I think dissuadeing people from buying a advanced price is besides any way to fight it.
My last caller shared his view of the matter. - Simple analogy. You have chocolate. 1 kg costs 1 PLN, is delicious and everyone buys it. abruptly you have 50 percent obese people in the country. The fact that you rise the price to PLN 100 for 1 kg will not origin 50 percent of obese people to magically lose weight or start losing weight. On the another hand, people who are young and do not have obesity will not buy this chocolate due to the fact that it is besides expensive. And in 20 years, the number of obese people fell from 50 to 10 percent.
Raising prices is not a part for everything. Nothing solves the problem 100 percent. We usage the means we gotta fight, and in my opinion, as long as it actually brings any benefits and reductions in consumption, let's rise prices. And we have a survey that confirms that this will help.
- It's a receipt.
Is raising the excise work on alcohol gonna reduce the problem? "There is overwhelming evidence"
And it seems to be accurate. According to the WHO study, raising taxes on alcoholic products is 1 of the 3 most effective ways to effectively reduce its consumption. This is besides confirmed by the studies indicated by nutritionists from Dietetics syndrome #NoNoNaŻy. From an extended Instagram entry we learn that "there is evidence that higher taxes and alcohol prices active lower full alcohol consumption. And believe me, in science, the word "overwhelming evidence" falls very rarely." What does it look like in numbers? The author of the entry cited the publication of Canadian scientists from 2022. According to her, any increase in the price by 10% would reduce consumption:
beer by 3 percent,
wine by 6 percent,
spirits (e.g. vodka) by 6.5%.
"According to model calculations, alcohol consumption in Poland would decrease by about 3-4.5% in the first years and 5-7 percent in subsequent years" - we read in the instagram account in the quoted source.
Another survey worth quoting here is simply a publication of scientists from the University of Florida. According to them, doubling taxes on alcohol would reduce deaths by up to 35%, road accidents by 11% and home force by 2 percent. Real statistic cannot be ignored here. Eurostat data indicate that the average number of deaths from alcoholism in Europe is 3.6 per 100,000 inhabitants. In Poland, this rate is over 10 - it is worse only in Slovenia (more than 17).
Someone might say alcohol is my choice, and it's no of your business. Well, not exactly. Last year's survey of the Polish Academy in Czestochowa shows that as many as 4-5 million Poles conflict with alcoholism. Next to each of these people are friends, family, coworkers. It is estimated that about 12 million Poles are struggling with the negative effects of excessive alcohol consumption. This means that all 3rd individual has a sad (sometimes tragic) experience of alcohol in their surroundings. What do you think about the task proposed by the Ministry of Finance? Do you think that Karol Nawrocki should sign the law on the increase in excise work on alcohol? We encourage you to participate in the probe and comment.
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