Showing posts with label smuggling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smuggling. Show all posts
Tuesday, 23 August 2016

In the end bans usually make things worse - the case of cigarettes

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The problem with banning things is that it seldom stops them. Even when you take the sort of extreme and violent steps we've seen recent...
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Sunday, 28 June 2015

At what point does smuggling negate the health gain from tobacco duty rises?

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Until just a few years ago the words 'illegal tobacco' seldom, if ever appeared in the press and media. It's not that the ...
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Saturday, 11 January 2014

A reminder of the effect of protectionism...

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**** Amidst all the nannying fussbucketry about sugar, I stumbled on a consequence of making the evil white stuff more expensive: ...
Friday, 20 December 2013

Bogus booze and fake fags...

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**** Prices soar thanks to the government's ravenous desire for our cash and the urging of the Church of Public Health to ban everythi...
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Sunday, 27 January 2013

Now about that cigarette smuggling...

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**** And its consequences : Among its most prominent beneficiaries is none other than Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed jihadist and...
Monday, 5 November 2012

Cash, crime and the dodging of taxes

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**** We've become pretty judging of others - and especially businesses - for what we see as the dodging of taxes. Yet, a few saints an...
Thursday, 18 October 2012

Why tobacco duty is now counter-productive...

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**** I am grateful to Mr Worstall for digging out the stat from the bowels of HMRC reporting: Key findings for hand rolling tobacco (H...
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Tuesday, 16 October 2012

So where do kids get their ciggies from then?

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**** In the latest piece of "stoptober" propaganda, we hear from trading standards in Bradford : Trading Standards said its l...
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012

If drink is so cheap why are people smuggling it?

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**** Seriously, why? Alcohol smuggling has become big business for organised crime according to HM Revenue and Customs, with tax losse...
Saturday, 29 September 2012

Now about that cigarette smuggling that isn't increasing...

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**** ...now it's starting to grow in Bradford too : The amount of black market cigarettes smoked on Bradford streets has more th...
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Monday, 10 September 2012

Now about that cigarette smuggling

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**** It seems that it's getting worse and this is before the nannying fussbuckets make it even easier for the smugglers by introducin...
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Monday, 23 July 2012

The police, the unions, business and the public think it daft. Can we ditch the idea of plain packs for fags now?

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It seems that everyone bar the paid lackeys of The Churchof Public Health is against the idea of plain packaging for cigarettes. Th...
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Who was it said booze was too cheap?

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**** Not cheap enough for some, it seems : Unregulated and potentially dangerous fake alcohol has been found for sale in Bradford, Wes...
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Thursday, 22 March 2012

"Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk." - A budget for smugglers

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Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark - Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. Them that asks no questions isn...
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