{"id":153,"date":"2019-10-08T14:21:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/?p=153"},"modified":"2019-10-08T14:21:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:21:27","slug":"latest-excise-hike-leaves-retailers-at-a-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/2019\/10\/08\/latest-excise-hike-leaves-retailers-at-a-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Excise Hike leaves Retailers at a Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Retailers are at a loss to understand the Government\u2019s decision to impose\nanother excise increase of 50c in today\u2019s Budget. Retailers Against Smuggling\u2019s\n(RAS) National Spokesperson Benny Gilsenan commented on the announcement: \u201cIn\nthe backdrop of a potential no-deal Brexit, the return of a Duty Free regime\nbetween Ireland and the UK and an ever fluctuating Sterling, all of which will\nlead to further growth in the illicit trade, tax compliant small and medium\nsized retailers are once again penalised while\ncriminals and Airport Duty Frees reap\nthe benefits as the cost of tobacco products\nincrease yet again.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retailers are at a loss to understand the Government\u2019s decision to impose another excise increase of 50c in today\u2019s Budget. Retailers Against Smuggling\u2019s (RAS) National Spokesperson Benny Gilsenan commented on the announcement: \u201cIn the backdrop of a potential no-deal Brexit, the return of a Duty Free regime between Ireland and the UK and an ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}