Duty Free cigarettes

None.

But cigarettes are cheaper than duty-free in many countries. This allows you bring in a "personal use" amount.

Wife smokes and I'll pop to Lisbon for an overnight or Dusseldorf for one day, take in a meeting with connections there and buy about 1600 cigarettes.

Portugal is about €6.25, Dusseldorf is just under €7 per pack 20. Heading to Spain in Nov for golf and will buy a load there for her.

No grey area or trying to dodge customs. Totally permissable.

I believe its 800 per person travelling between EU countries.

If you tell Customs they are for anyone else but you, they will be seized. This is important.

RTE had a customs documentary series six or seven years ago and it showed a lad who was detained for doing that.

He was doing it a couple of times a day though and then selling them on the streets.

He wasn't one of the usual traders so he's probably lucky it was customs that caught him.

How would you show personal use ?

Just back from a few days in Bilbao. €48 200 rothmans bought back 1200 carried openly through customs no problem

Hi lads.I will be travelling from Ireland to Switzerland and from Zurich to Poland( with my wife) and back to Ireland.Only thing is I will be travelling alone back to Ireland so legal limit for tobacco is 1kg

10*50g Amber leaf is 117CHF(122) euro at Zurich Airport

Could I get 500g AL + 400g RedBull(polish Amber Leaf 😂) so that way I stay within limits?

Or if I get stopped AL will be treated as duty free because I bought in Switzerland or duty paid because I will be travelling from Poland? So EU limit applies?

Was never stopped nor have more than 1kg ever but just wondering how does it work.

Thanks

The source of the goods being from Switzerland would be a problem and if they were stopping you they would look at the tax stamps on them to check source country. My understanding is that you would only be entitled to bring back 250g sourced in Switzerland (non EU allowance) but could combine this with 750g purchased in Poland to bring you to the guideline 1kg EU amount. (Perhaps it would be fine to have the full 1kg EU + 250g Non EU)

I've seen on those customs TV shows cigarettes sourced outside the EU being brought through in to UK (pre Brexit) from an EU country and the passenger being told they are only entitled to 200 cigarettes as their goods were non EU sourced.

Thanks lads.

Poland has same "limits" as Ireland 250g from non EU so I will be within limit(250 me +250 wife).

Im going to chance it and take 500g AL +400g RedBull.

Price here most likely go up with next budget so I need to stock up as I wont be going abroad for a while.

Thx again for all answers.

Flew today from Krakow do Shannon.They had Amber Leaf for 270 pln(61€) duty paid for EU,250g(5*50g).Its new in stock at Polish airports woman said.Must be demand from tourists as I have never seen AL before at Polish airports.

Stocked up some more(within limit 😅)

Anywhere in mainland Spain buy from the tobacco shops not the airport around €5 for 20

With my recent trips its either Poland or Spain.

In Poland Marlboro Gold is around 4.5€(19.50PLN).Price is printed on each pack and airports cant sell for more by law.

Mainland Spain would be around 5€ to 6€ in Supermarkets.Little more at the airport

Czechia around 6.20€,Hungary 6.79€,Switzerland is duty free at the airport for EU so around 75€ for 200.Thats my observation from recent trips.Hope that helps.

Luton airport duty free website has prices.

Slightly cheaper than Gatwick and Stansted.

"World of duty free" doesn't list prices anymore. They seem to be in every UK airport bar Luton.

https://www.aeliadutyfree.co.uk/luton/en/tobacco-en.html?limit=all

Certainly beats €270 for 200 B&H in the shops.

Begs the question, what the hell are the government doing with all that tax?

Oh wait, the new Childrens Hospital money pit.