Ordering cigarettes online?

substr

Just wondering has anyone ordered cheap smokes off the net and does anyone know the laws regarding customs/excise duty etc
http://www.tobacco-online.net/ look good would you say it would be safe just ordering 200 or so?
Cheers

PS Forgot to mention Ireland is one of the few countries they DO ship to..

substr

come on guys €6 a pack is just scandalous!

flogen

jesus, youd think youd be abit flamboyant and flash with your own suicide....

sorry..... only messing.

but seriously, those taxes are there for a reason, and something tells me you buying them online means importing them from a foreign country, and if you were to do that wouldnt you have to pay an exicse on them, if they were allowed through that is (wouldnt know myself).

Flogen

substr

Ah yeah well you can bring 400 or something back from spain or wherever so i thought if u didnt order much you could get away with it..

flogen

yeah, maybe your right, but I wouldnt know one way or the other.

on a different note, i love the site, especially the shots of famous people looking sexy with their cigarettes, especially Churchill..... rarrrr

Flogen

Hobbes

You import them you have to pay the tax.

hedgetrimmer

There was a website about a year back that did the same thing, so customs smacked them down sharply, and traced a lot of buyers from the site and charged them VAT in retrospect. - it is illegal to order these ciggies, and although people got away with it for quite a while before on the other site, I'd imagine the authorities are more vigilant now.

SheroN

Also the fact you've posted the url on one of the biggest messages boards in ireland, will do nothing but speed up the authorities clamp down.

Kali

Originally posted by SheroN
Also the fact you've posted the url on one of the biggest messages boards in ireland, will do nothing but speed up the authorities clamp down.

In fairness I've yet to see "Welcome to our newest member, Customs_Man" on the top left corner of the forums page.

Johnny Versace

yessmoke.com. I used to use them. Great stuff!

Originally posted by hedgetrimmer
There was a website about a year back that did the same thing, so customs smacked them down sharply, and traced a lot of buyers from the site and charged them VAT in retrospect. - it is illegal to order these ciggies, and although people got away with it for quite a while before on the other site, I'd imagine the authorities are more vigilant now.

hedgetrimmer

That was them!! Didn't want to post the site though, as it is on the Custom's search list, and they run periodic search.

And yes, as a Civil Servant my sources in this are valid

MojoMaker

You can receive a quantity (up to 800?) of cigarettes as a gift without excise duty. since the smokes are being imported from Spain typically (€3 per pack) the payment of EU VAT is not an issue. The key is that you cannot order for yourself but rather as a gift for someone else, or have someone else order as a gift for you. This exploits a loophole in EU law concerning the taxation of gifts. At the moment nothing the Irish government can do, however the disclaimer is that this must be a once-off occurance and if you buy or receive these "gifts" every month you will be violating the conditions of gift tax exemption.

www.smokesdirect.com

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I oredered smokes form a site like that one a couple of years back.

They we're delivered to my house, but had a massive Tax Bill with them too, I just sent the postman back with them.

The Beer Baron

Just smuggle 'em tbh.

/nick TheCancerBaron

Hobart

Originally posted by hedgetrimmer
- it is illegal to order these ciggies,

As A civil servant. are you sure it is illegal to oreder these ciggies? Even if you declare them to C&E?

DivX

If customs recognise the package as cigarettes, they will simply remove the cigs from the parcel. Saying that i know someone who got in a few hundred from another site for €14 for 200.... pity i quit smoking...