Taking Spanish cigarettes out of Gibraltar - Page 3

jimenato · #21 (**permalink**) 29th July 2012, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Hepa

That is how it has always been. We are a Zona Especial Canarias, with 7% purchase tax, hence booze and tobacco are far cheaper here than the rest of Europe and the U.K.

So Europe and the U.K. impose those restriction to protect their own markets.

Customs duty is a tariff imposed in order to protect indigenous industry. However the tax on petrol, tobacco and alcohol is excise duty which is purely to raise revenue.

dunmovin · #22 (**permalink**) 30th July 2012, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Hepa

The Canary Islands are part of European Union, we use the Euro, we vote in the European Elections and we fly the European flag.

apologies for that

just goes too show, I shouldn't believe everything I'm told. ( that particular "gem of misinformation " came from a Spanish guy I met in Hong Kong.

Hepa · #23 (**permalink**) 30th July 2012, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by dunmovin

apologies for that

just goes too show, I shouldn't believe everything I'm told. ( that particular "gem of misinformation " came from a Spanish guy I met in Hong Kong.

That is nothing, when my friend did his military service in Madrid many of his compañeros thought that the Canary Islands were situated in the Mediterranean!

Alcalaina · #24 (**permalink**) 30th July 2012, 10:08 AM

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