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News in the Sun
If you knew anyone would you shop them? I'm a bit confused as to how you will get your reward if you dont have to give personal details - but that's just me picky :sulk2:
According to the British Embassy’s UK in Spain website, residents in Spain may get a cash reward for useful tip-offs leading to the capture of tobacco smugglers and tax fraudsters.
HM Revenue & Customs has launched a new campaign asking people who have information to call a Customs Hotline. The freephone Spanish number is 900 988 922 and, they say, you don’t need to give your personal details.
The call for help in the fight against illegal imports of cigarettes to Spain, which are often en route to the UK, comes as smugglers try to make huge profits by evading tax or by selling low-quality, counterfeit cigarettes, tobacco and other goods.
Some 225 million cigarettes and several tonnes of tobacco that were destined for the UK market have been seized in Spain over the last year. Cigarettes may look genuine, but they very often bear no relation to the brands which they pretend to represent. Smuggled alcohol is similarly very likely to be fake.
Other tax frauds that HM Revenue & Customs want to hear about include betting and gaming, money laundering and the ‘carousel’ VAT scam in Europe. “We hope the public will help us come down hard on the smugglers and fraudsters who cheat the rest of us by not making their full contribution to the cost of public services”, said an HMRC spokesman. “These people are criminals who we want to catch.”
News in the Sun
If you knew anyone would you shop them? I'm a bit confused as to how you will get your reward if you dont have to give personal details - but that's just me picky :sulk2:
According to the British Embassy’s UK in Spain website, residents in Spain may get a cash reward for useful tip-offs leading to the capture of tobacco smugglers and tax fraudsters.
HM Revenue & Customs has launched a new campaign asking people who have information to call a Customs Hotline. The freephone Spanish number is 900 988 922 and, they say, you don’t need to give your personal details.
The call for help in the fight against illegal imports of cigarettes to Spain, which are often en route to the UK, comes as smugglers try to make huge profits by evading tax or by selling low-quality, counterfeit cigarettes, tobacco and other goods.
Some 225 million cigarettes and several tonnes of tobacco that were destined for the UK market have been seized in Spain over the last year. Cigarettes may look genuine, but they very often bear no relation to the brands which they pretend to represent. Smuggled alcohol is similarly very likely to be fake.
Other tax frauds that HM Revenue & Customs want to hear about include betting and gaming, money laundering and the ‘carousel’ VAT scam in Europe. “We hope the public will help us come down hard on the smugglers and fraudsters who cheat the rest of us by not making their full contribution to the cost of public services”, said an HMRC spokesman. “These people are criminals who we want to catch.”
