COSTLY GIFTS.
IRISH IMPORT DUTIES. If one wishes .to .retain the respect of friends in the Irish Free State, they should,take-care when they send them New. Year gifts. Many Dubliners have had good reason to resent the friendly intentions of English friends sending them Christmas hampers, even though the carriage was prepaid. The Free State import duties are many, and a duty of at least half a crown must l>e paid by the consignee on every dutiable article, in addition to the Customs entry stamp, value 6d." EVen duty-free* commodities are liable to the stamp tax of. 6d per item. Hence it has happened that on scores of hampers containing contents bought from a Loudon store at 10s, the Irish recipients have been compelled to pay more than 30s. Irish colleens are aflame with anger at having to pay the postman 3s for a small box of chocolate or shortbread sent by their English admirers.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 131, 16 March 1931, Page 8
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