FRAUDS IN GERMANY.
EVASION OF EXCISE DUTY.
(bt cable— passs association—coptbioht. (AUSTRALIAN AHD K.I. CABCB ASSOCTATTOW.) BERLIN, March 6.
Slnee the war Germany has been fertilw4B novel frauds. All cigarettes ara subject to an ezeiße duty of 40 per eent., and a luxury tax of 6 per cent, more. The fact that the tax has been paid is certified by a band gummed on the boxes. Forgers have found a highly profitable .source of income' in counterfeiting this band. About 500,000,000 cigarettes, being 25 per cent, of the total, have been escaping duty annually owing to forged excise bands, representing a loss to the Exchequer of £2,000,000.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17707, 8 March 1923, Page 11
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