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    Es kommt zu massivem Durchgreifen bei Tabakimporten für den Eigenbedarf

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    1. Early_Egg_7474 on

      “The new regulations make it clear that from 9 December 2025, where the quantity of tobacco products someone brings into Ireland from the EU exceed the permitted amounts, the full quantity will be seized,” he added.

      That means that if someone tries to bring in 1,000 cigarettes for personal use, the whole quantity will be seized, rather than the 200 excess over the 800 permitted under the new rules.”

    3. phyneas on

      Sounds like the big change is that the current indicative thresholds are now effectively going to be hard limits and exceeding them will be a de facto violation, whereas before you could actually bring in more than the threshold as long as you could still convince the customs officials that it was for your own personal use.

    4. Quietgoer on

      You are supposed to be allowed „unlimited“ personal goods between EU countries but the Revenue pushed hard to turn the EU guidelines where you have to supply proof that it really is for personal use into hard limits.

      Nothing stopping you filling your car to the brim with fags in Luxembourg and driving into neighbouring countries

      But Ireland is special, Ireland is and island and Ireland has especially high taxes on alcohol and tobacco it doesn’t want to miss out on…

    8. great_whitehope on

      Dublin where every smoker is friends with an eastern European supplier

    9. keeko847 on

      I’ve been stopped bringing fags back through Shannon a good few times over the last year. Scanned the bag, reminded me of the limit, let me through. I used to travel back from Liverpool twice a month so I haven’t bought fags in Ireland for about 3 years. Not travelling as much now but fuck that am I paying Irish prices, cheaper getting a flight

    10. Sciprio on

      >With successive budgets having continually added more excise duty to the tobacco products in an effort to cut consumption, the attraction of buying and products such as cigarettes in EU countries where prices are much cheaper to bring to Ireland has grown.

      Another one to add to the not so-called „Free Market“ People were buying alcohol cheaper in shops so they had to bring in minimum unit pricing, and now they want to penalized people from bring in smokes. All for the free market until it actually works in the people’s favour.

    11. bytheoceansedge on

      How is this legal? Is it another case of the VRT issue whereby it just needs someone with deep enough pockets to challenge it?

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