Excise duty on tobacco products

The bachelor thesis is focused on the excise duty on tobacco products. The main aim of it is to explain the method of taxation of tobacco products according to the legislative documents which are valid in the Czech Republic. The first part of thesis contains the method of taxation of tobacco products, where is defined in general the taxation of commodities which are liable to the excise duty. Then there is analyzed overall minimum excise duty on cigarettes and determined the result by comparison, if the Czech Republic meets the requirements of the European Community. The influence on the amount of tax is determined by the analysis of the tax rates until year 2014. The last part of the thesis deals with the importance of tax revenue from excise duty on tobacco products