SMUGGLER DUTY
March 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLSMUGGLERS are liable for customs duties on goods they present to excise officials in the European Union, used to conceal more valuable undeclared cargo, the European Court of Justice has ruled. Captured smugglers - allowed into the country in a controlled delivery operation - had tried to sneak into Belgium 7 million cigarettes behind 29 cases of cooking utensils. They refused to pay duty on any of these goods, because they were wrongly declared. And although judges agreed no money was owed on the undeclared cigarettes, they said duty was payable ...
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