{"id":303521,"date":"2025-12-07T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303521\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:33:12","slug":"drop-new-medicine-tariffs-tax-cruise-passengers-instead-zminijietna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303521\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop new medicine tariffs, tax cruise passengers instead \u2013 \u017bminijietna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.newsbook.com.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/27135444\/BUDGET-2026-medicine-medicina-health-sahha-Unsplash-1-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Ritratt: Unsplash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"487\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BUDGET-2026-medicine-medicina-health-sahha-Unsplash-1-696x487.jpg\"   alt=\"BUDGET-2026-medicine-medicina-health-sahha-Unsplash-1\" title=\"BUDGET-2026-medicine-medicina-health-sahha-Unsplash-1\"\/><\/a>Ritratt: Unsplash<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpml-ls-statics-post_translations wpml-ls wpml-ls-touch-device\">Tista&#8217; taqra bil-<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/newsbook.com.mt\/tnehhi-t-tariffi-godda-fuq-l-medicini-u-minflok-intaxxa-l-passiggieri-tal-cruise-liners-zminijietna\/\" class=\"wpml-ls-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing think-tank organisation \u017bminijietna urged the government to withdraw a legal notice which increases fees on medicine registration, which it warned was set to increase medicine prices and place additional burdens on households.<\/p>\n<p>\u017bminijietna\u2019s opposition to Legal Notice 254 of 2025 echoes that of the Nationalist Party, which had condemned what it described as a stealth increase in medicine prices. \u017bminijietna observed that the legal notice introduced new annual fees for pharmacies, wholesalers, importers, manufacturers, brokers, authorised representatives, and distributors, and that this increase was likely to be passed on to the consumer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsbook.com.mt\/en\/pn-demands-reversal-of-stealth-medicine-price-increases\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>PN demands reversal of \u2018stealth\u2019 medicine price increases<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/newsbook.com.mt\/en\/pn-demands-reversal-of-stealth-medicine-price-increases\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PC-PN-Tariffi-fuq-il-medicini-1-218x150.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new fees are set to come into effect on 1 January, and the NGO is urging the government to change its mind.<\/p>\n<p>If the government wished to raise revenue, \u017bminijietna argued, it should introduce a tax on cruise liner passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Such a measure, it pointed out, \u201cwould both address overtourism and provide an alternative source of government revenue without impacting the cost of essential medicines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stay updated. 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