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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry, no, it's not.
To use an analogy, there's a big "black market" in the UK with people buying alcohol and cigarettes from France, where the taxes on these particular goods are much lower than here in the UK, and then re-selling them here. If I buy a bottle of Bell's whisky that someone has brought from France then I'm breaking the law in buying a bottle of whisky that hasn't had UK taxes paid on it. It doesn't matter that it's an identical bottle of whisky to the one that I could buy in my local supermarket and that, if I stood the two side by side, I couldn't tell which was which. One came from a legal source, the other from an illegal one.
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Just had to comment on this- what an example of big govt. in action. You can buy an "illegal" bottle of Bell's, which I believe is distilled in Scotland, at a cheaper price if re-imported from France, which I presume has already had French taxes paid on it. Frankly, I think the solution here is for your govt. to reduce their taxes.
We have similar idiocy here- if you live in Ohio, the state rooks you on alcohol taxes. Kentucky does not, at least as badly. So, if you live along the border, in Cincinnati, for example, you drive over to Kentucky to buy liquor and save $5 per bottle or more. Illegal? Of course. Does everyone do it? Of course. Will anyone ever be convicted of smuggling 5 or 6 bottles of liquor across the border? Of course not. Not when your friendly neighborhood judge has stocked his basement bar with Kentucky liquor.