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Law/Patents - Law: Taxation & Customs / crime | | French term or phrase: non revêtus de bandelettes fiscales | What is the meaning of this phrase in the following sentence? It is taken from a Belgian criminal record transcript listing the offences of a particular person. This one concerns transporting from abroad an amount of cigarettes over the permitted limit.
"Avoir transporté dans ses bagages, 1000 paquets de 20 cigarettes, non revêtus de bandelettes fiscales."
Is a 'bandelette fiscale' some form of customs declaration? |
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| | without (or with broken) excise seals | Explanation:
It refers to the exise seals you find on cigarrette packs and bottles of your favourite tipple, intended to prevent the avoidance of duty.
When the Ontario Provincial Police stopped a van on the Trans ever, after they discovered that the 9600 packs of cigarettes in the vehicle had the province's excise seal they waved the van on its way. ...
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1 hr confidence: Without excise stamps
Explanation:
An excise stamp is type of revenue stamp affixed to some exciseable goods to indicate that the required excise has been paid by the manufacturer.
Example sentence(s):- Excise stamps are most commonly found on tobacco and alcohol products, which reach the consumer in neatly-packaged units
Reference: http://wapedia.mobi/en/Excise_stamp
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