“The Federal Tax Authority, FTA, has issued a decision to postpone the implementation of the ban on supplying, transferring, storing, and possession of water pipe tobacco – known in Arabic as ‘mu’assel’ – and electrically heated cigarettes in the UAE that do not carry digital tax stamps until 1st January 2021. The ban had previously been scheduled to come into effect on 1st June 2020, in keeping with the timeline set for launching phase two of the ‘Marking Tobacco and Tobacco Products Scheme’, the authority said in a statement on Tuesday.”
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FTA postpones ban on water pipe tobacco, e-cigarettes without digital tax stamps to January 2021