Gavin McFarlane of Temple Chambers Cardiff brings us up-to-date on the latest Duty and Customs news
Things have just got even worse for Customs. The raft of bad news by which the department has become weighed down sank even lower in the water with the news announced by the European Commission that it intends to relax controls on cross-border shopping in relation to alcoholic drinks. Brussels has said that it wishes to do away with the current 'advisory' limits on the quantities of alcohol which cross-border shoppers can take back to their home countries without payment there of excise duty. This issue has been a running sore in the side of the Customs service and a major headache for successive Treasury ministers since the coming into effect of the European Single Market in 1993.
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Gavin McFarlane of Temple Chambers Cardiff brings us up-to-date on the latest Duty and Customs news
Things have just got even worse for Customs. The raft of bad news by which the department has become weighed down sank even lower in the water with the news announced by the European Commission that it intends to relax controls on cross-border shopping in relation to alcoholic drinks. Brussels has said that it wishes to do away with the current 'advisory' limits on the quantities of alcohol which cross-border shoppers can take back to their home countries without payment there of excise duty. This issue has been a running sore in the side of the Customs service and a major headache for successive Treasury ministers since the coming into effect of the European Single Market in 1993.
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