Jump to full article: Azerbaijan Business Center (az), 2008-04-08
Intro: Quantity of violations of rules of excisable goods sale has grown sharply in Azerbaijan. First of all, it concerns cigarettes – few-fold rise of sales of tobacco products without or forged excise duty stamps.
The Ministry informed that it controls circulation of excisable goods within general control over taxpayers.
“In 2006-7 we pursued goal-oriented policy of control over turnover of excisable goods and now do not intend to return to this practice,” the Ministry said.
In 2005-6 the Ministry and the State Customs Committee checked regularly legitimacy of imported cigarette sales. And then cigarettes without national excise duty stamps almost disappeared from sale. But weakening of this control has led to resumption of illegal trade practice.
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