All Forecourt Trader articles in November 2013 – Page 6
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Plain packaging boost to illicit trade confirmed by new study
Confirmation of the boost to the illicit trade as a result of the plain packaging of tobacco has been revealed in a new KPMG report, released in Australia. The study – Illicit Tobacco in Australia - shows the illicit tobacco market is now at 13.3% of total consumption – up ...
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BOSS and AVCIS sign information sharing agreement
BOSS has signed an information sharing agreement (ISA) with the Association of Chief Police Officers Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (AVCIS) that will enable the wider circulation of vehicles of interest, particularly with regards to linking vehicles that owe money for fuel to be linked to other criminality. Kevin Eastwood, executive ...
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Students warned over tobacco smuggling
Students in Cardiff are being warned not to get involved in cigarette smuggling after parcels containing non-duty paid foreign brands were seized by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). In the last week, officers have seized 45 parcels of illegal cigarettes destined for student properties in the Cathays area of Cardiff. ...
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HMRC raids illicit fuel plant
A laundering plant capable of producing more than 16.4million litres of illicit fuel a year and potentially evading around £10.6m in taxes and duty was dismantled by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) after a raid on Wednesday night. Officers from HMRC, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) and the Police ...
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Cigarette smuggler jailed
A man from Bridgend in South Wales, who smuggled 485,000 cigarettes and hundreds of counterfeit watches into the UK, has been jailed. The duty loss on the cigarettes is estimated at £125,000. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers seized the cigarettes and watches from a Bridgend storage unit in January ...
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NewsFuel duty deferment scheme a real ’game changer’
Fuel retailers could save signficant sums of money by buying fuel under duty deferment terms available from HMRC, claimed Alan Powell of tax specialist Alan Powell Associates, at this week’s Regeneration Forum at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Westminster. The Forum, which was hosted by the PRA and ...
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Police car chase ends in forecourt smash
A car being pursued by police after a drugs raid crashed on a forecourt in Greater Manchester, narrowly missing the petrol pumps. The chase began after officers from Greater Manchester Police’s Tactical Vehicle Intercept Unit (TVIU) stopped a Volkswagen Caddy van near to the East Lancashire Road, Swinton, on Wednesday ...
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Top 50 Indie helps to defeat Tesco scheme
Top 50 Indie and West Country forecourt operator Chartman is celebrating after the local council rejected plans to build a Tesco supermarket and petrol filling station in the Cornish town of Bude (population 9,900). Chartman, which includes the Bude Service Station in the town among its nine sites, combined with ...