As of today, the "System of Distinctive Marks on Tobacco and its Products" is witnessing the application of the second steps of the timetable for the second phase of the system that aims to raise the efficiency and effectiveness of tax control systems, based on the latest digital technologies, in order to enhance the requirements of the UAE national agenda, which aims to transition to an existing national economy On knowledge.
The Federal Tax Authority renewed its assurance that starting today, importing all kinds of hookah tobacco and cigarette coils that are electrically heated without "digital tax stamps" will be prohibited, confirming that as of June 1, the supply, transportation, storage or possession of these will be prohibited. Selective goods that are not digitally defined in the local market.
The application of the distinctive signs system on tobacco and its products has achieved tangible success in its first stage which came into effect, as of January 2019, for all types of imported, locally produced and produced "cigarettes" by providing "digital tax stamps" from the system supplier, after the authority approved to install them on cigarette packages Before leaving the factory for supply to local markets.
It is noteworthy that the UAE is the first regionally in the application of this digital system, which aims to protect consumers from commercial fraud and poor quality products, and protect the environment and human health.
The first emirates regionally in implementing the digital system to protect consumers.