KIEV, June 13 – The State Fiscal Service has again called on the government to introduce floor tobacco prices, citing shortfalls to the budget as companies decrease upper prices.

"This is a mechanism for preventing the shortfalls to the budget. One of the reasons is the reduction of upper retail prices of cigarettes started by tobacco companies from October 2015 and continued in 2016," according to the materials to the draft cabinet resolution on setting the floor wholesale and retail prices of tobacco products, tobacco and industrial tobacco substitutes, the State Fiscal Service's said on a post to its website.