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Excise Tax is a sin tax – a consumption tax imposed on the consumer over and above VAT. ILLUSTRATION | SHUTTERSTOCK

I don’t claim authority or domain knowledge when it comes to interpreting legal texts. But I am a very big fan of the public finance chapters of the 2010 Constitution.

I keep hoping that Mr Okiya Omtata or any other public-spirited litigation activist will one day go to the Supreme Court to settle the issue of the constitutionality of the so-called Sicpa excise stamp fees.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.