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Where do shoppers stand legally (Airport Customs)?

  • 31-12-2009 1:26am
    #1
    Princess Fiona
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭


    Ok before anyone gets excited, I'm not asking how to avoid/evade customs taxes, just wondering if any legal eagles out there could satisfy my genuine curiosity about something. I've been wondering this for a while...
    Basically, if you go on a New York (or any other U.S.) shopping trip, max out the oul credit card and get stopped by customs on the way back (at Dublin/Shannon/Cork airport), where do you stand legally if all purchased clothing is de-tagged and you've disposed of all receipts?
    I would have thought it would have been up to customs to prove that you did buy the stuff in the US, but friends of mine reckon it's up to you to prove that you didn't.
    Thing is, hypothetically speaking, if I were to go to the U.S. again in the near future, the clothes I'd be bringing over to wear while on holiday would be typically "U.S." stuff - Uggs, Ralph Lauren jumpers, Abercrombie hoodies, etc... Stuff I got there years ago. How would customs know the difference between stuff purchased in the U.S. years ago and stuff purchased on the current trip? :confused:
    Mods: Please feel free to move if this would be better elsewhere but would like to know the legal viewpoint on this.


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  • #2
    dermot_sheehan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭dermot_sheehan


    Customs Consolidation Act 1876 has a presumption in relation to imports that it is for the person importing to show that the goods are non-duitable/duty has been paid.

    I can't find it online, but s. 9 of the customs act 1988 has a near identical provision for exports (the idea of putting duty on exports seems not to have occurred in the 19th century and i'm not sure what goods today are dutiable to export).


  • #3
    Princess Fiona
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭Princess Fiona


    Interesting, thanks for the reply.
    Looks like my friends are right then, damn! ;)


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