Sweden Slams Idea of EU-Wide Tobacco Tax as ‘Unacceptable’

An EU-wide tax hike on tobacco and tobacco products would be “completely unacceptable,” Swedish Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson said, claiming the European Commission is considering proposing the tax revenue go to the EU and not to Sweden.

In a series of posts on X on Tuesday, Svantesson said “it is obvious that the tax revenues should benefit Sweden and not go to EU bureaucracy.”

The commission hasn’t publicly said if it will propose a revision of the EU’s rules for individual countries’ tobacco taxes.It would be a revision of a 2011 law. But a leaked impact assessment of ...