I see this as no more than a blatant tax grab. If there are 3 million vapers, or whatever the actual number is, that means there are 3 million fewer people regularly topping up the government's coffers with regular voluntary donations of tobacco tax. Stating that the intention is to raise the cost of vaping to discourage smoking is blatant ludicrous spin - if you want children to be healthier and to eat fruit instead of confectionary you don't raise taxes on fruit...
After all the Covid lockdowns/payments followed by the energy crisis cost of living payments that are still ongoing the coffers are basically empty. I fcn detest Tories but I can't see that any Government would be able to resist taxing vaping because it is such an easy target. Smokers will regard it as 'we pay high taxes so it's only fair vapers should pay', people who neither smoke or vape will probably regard it as a good thing as is additional revenue being paid by people who are anti-social - smoke or vape, they don't give a shit, all they know or care about is they don't want to walk through a cloud of something that has come out of someone else's gob. Which is fair enough really.
Quite frankly I'm surprised they've held out for so long, I just hope the inevitable tax they levy is restricted to nicotine only and not applied to everything else like hardware, shortfills, VG/PG, flavourings etc.
I intend to order 100 nic shots for my freezer this weekend - I won't be going for the unmentionable stronger concentration stuff as my hands shake and I know trying to use that stuff will end badly lol.
I'll just accept paying the inevitable tax when it happens, but I am concerned about the flavours question. I suck at mixing, if all I can acquire legally is tobacco, menthol or mint and have to pay a nicotine tax on it - I'll be back on the combustible stuff,
