Prices for vodka will increase significantly in Ukraine, experts expect a wave of surrogate
New minimum retail prices for vodka in Ukraine will be introduced within ten days, and a half-liter bottle of “vodka” will cost at least 70 hryvnia.
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This decision was made at a meeting at the Ministry of Economic Development, reports the publication BBC.ua.
Reportedly, the meeting was held behind closed doors, but journalists managed to find out that such measures would be introduced in connection with mass poisonings with surrogate alcohol. The government believes that in this way it will be possible to protect our citizens, as well as to better combat surrogacy and increase budget revenues.
Journalists note that such an undertaking will not be successful - the minimum wage has been raised before, but budget revenues have not increased; moreover, the number of surrogate and cheap products on the market has increased.
Opponents of raising the minimum wage have already stated that another increase in the price of vodka, on the contrary, will lead to the activation of counterfeiters on the market. A legal, high-quality product will become inaccessible to most buyers, and they will start buying only “scorched” vodka.
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