In the June 2025 issue of Tax Stamp & Traceability News™, we reported that KPMG had released its ‘Illicit Cigarette Consumption in Europe’ report for 2024, commissioned by Philip Morris. Prompted by a later in-depth report by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on the illicit cigarette trade in Hull, a port city on England’s North Sea coast, this article examines the situation in the UK as a whole.
In a long-awaited shift that signals growing legal acceptance of industria…
Since 2005, SICPA has been a trailblazer in the tax stamp industry, consistently introducing innovations that…
Tax Stamp & Traceability News™ readers may remember Carolina Saravia from …
The International Tax Stamp Association (ITSA) is pleased to announce it w…
Argentina’s cigarette tax stamps have undergone a redesign following the transformation of the country’s tax authority from the Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos (AFIP) to the Agencia de Recaudación y Control Aduanero (ARCA). While the change reflects new institutional branding and regulatory updates under General Resolution 5603/2024, the stamps’ core optical security features remain firmly in place.
Portugal has become the latest EU member state to officially oppose the European Commission’s proposed reforms to the Tobacco Excise Tax Directive (TED) – especially the one calling for a sharp incre…
Kenya’s Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) is making progress in safeguarding fuel integrity through a technology- driven strategy, according to local news site Citizen Digital.
Brazil’s federal police recently pulled back the curtain on a criminal web that had infiltrated …
Tax Stamp & Traceability News™ readers may remember Carolina Saravia from the 2024 article ‘Chile’s …
The Portuguese government has announced a 2% increase in the price that tobacco companies will …
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