{
  "id": 15842346,
  "title": "Cigarettes: After Ministry mishap: Law comes into effect by mistake",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/zigaretten-nach-ministeriumspatzer-gesetz-tritt-aus-versehen-in-kraft",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-21T02:30:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/zigaretten-nach-ministeriumspatzer-gesetz-tritt-aus-versehen-in-kraft/100263764.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "From 2027 onwards, tobacco taxes were supposed to rise and smoking was supposed to become more expensive, that's what people thought. Not so - a tax law already applies now. That was not the intention, according to the Ministry of Finance.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}