Estonian tax authority focuses on smuggling across Estonian-Latvian border

  • 2016-07-13
  • BNS/TBT Staff
Commenting on the extensive coverage that media has given to Estonians going to buy alcohol on the Latvian side of the border because of cheaper taxes there, the Estonian Tax and Customs Board said that their focus is on smuggling and smugglers, and that bringing alcohol from Latvia for one’s own needs is a lawful activity. “As a rule, there is free movement of goods between member states of the European Union, which means that one can bring also alcohol from another member state for one’s own needs in the permitted amount. The most important thing for u...
 
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