As ELTA informs, the excise duty on beer and cider would increase by 15 percent in 2015, on wine - by 3 percent, and on spirits - by 2 percent. This way almost identical increase in the tax on all types of alcohol would be provided - by 1-2 cents per percent of alcohol in one liter.

If the Seimas approves the proposal to increase the excise duty on alcohol, alcohol taxes will be during three-year period - 2015-2017.

Last week Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius confirmed that the proposal to increase the excise duty on alcohol would be brought into consideration.

Last time the excise duty was increased on 1st April 2014.