New series of stamps on 1.4.2012 for cigarettes and smoking tobacco

The Danish tobacco tax on cigarettes, pipe tobacco and cigarette tobacco is changed on 1 April 2012. The new stamps for cigarettes will have the identification code of number 5, while smoking tobacco (pipe tobacco and cigarette tobacco) will have the identification code of number 2. For collectors, the new stamps for cigarettes are identified as series 51, for pipe tobacco as series 38, and for cigarette tobacco as series 31.

According to the law, the taxes will be changed again from the beginning of the year of 2014.

At the same time, cigarette packs containing less than 20 cigarettes are forbidden. Thus, the traditional 10 pieces pack, and the new 19 pieces pack, which during 2011 replaced most of the 20 pieces pack, will not be produced for the Danish market afterwards.



Examples of the new stamps.