Tobacco Companies are Avoiding Taxes and Bribing Governments

In their mission to maximize profits from the sale of deadly and addictive products, tobacco companies have been investigated by governments across the world for activity including bribery, corruption, and avoiding paying corporate taxes. Tobacco companies like Imperial Brands use their relationships with government officials, politicians, media, and businesses to block tobacco control policies. Tobacco companies can be weakened when their misconduct is publicly exposed and those relationships are strained and severed.

In Russia, the Federal Tax Service has found reason to make claims of tax avoidance worth 6.4 billion rubles against Imperial Brands, for manipulating their warehouse stocks to minimize their tax burden in 2019.