{"id":587141,"date":"2026-10-09T10:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=587141"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:06:33","slug":"premium-alcohol-to-face-higher-excise-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/premium-alcohol-to-face-higher-excise-taxes","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Premium Alcohol&#8221; to Face Higher Excise Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Ministry of Taxes and Duties proposes imposing higher excise taxes on &#8220;premium alcohol&#8221;. The relevant provisions are included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/pravo.by\/document\/?guid=3941&amp;p0=2026048001\">draft<\/a> amendments to the Tax Code.<\/p>\n<p>Under the draft, premium alcoholic products are defined as <em>&#8220;alcoholic beverages (excluding alcoholic beverages originating in a member state of the Eurasian Economic Union) imported into the territory of the Republic of Belarus, for which imports are not subject to the state&#8217;s exclusive right, according to a list determined annually by the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed excise tax rate for premium alcoholic products with an alcohol content of 7% or more is 41.85 roubles per litre of pure alcohol, while the rate for premium natural wines is set at 2.42 roubles per litre of finished product.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the proposed excise tax rate for natural wines that are not classified as premium products is 1.61 roubles per litre of finished product next year, while the rate for other alcoholic beverages with an alcohol content of 7% or more is 27.9 roubles per litre of pure alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the state&#8217;s exclusive right does not apply to grape wines with a minimum producer price of 13 euros per litre under FCA terms. In addition, the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade&#8217;s list includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>22 types of champagne, including Mo\u00ebt &amp; Chandon, Dom P\u00e9rignon and Louis Roederer, among others.<\/li>\n<li>52 types of cognac, including brands from Armenia, Moldova and France, such as Martell and Hennessy.<\/li>\n<li>75 types of whisky produced in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States and Canada, including Johnnie Walker, Chivas Regal and The Macallan.<\/li>\n<li>17 types of rum, including well-known brands from Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom and other countries, including Havana Club and Bacardi.<\/li>\n<li>One type of gin \u2014 Seagram\u2019s Extra Dry Gin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the amendments to the Tax Code are adopted, these drinks can be expected to become more expensive next year than other alcoholic beverages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Taxes and Duties proposes imposing higher excise taxes on &#8220;premium alcohol&#8221;. The relevant provisions are included in the draft amendments to the Tax Code. Under the draft, premium alcoholic products are defined as &#8220;alcoholic beverages (excluding alcoholic beverages originating in a member state of the Eurasian Economic Union) imported into the territory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":515325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac8a08d1fa01.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"\u00abPremium Alcohol\u00bb to Face Higher Excise Taxes"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587143,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587141\/revisions\/587143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}