Ship provision supplier jailed 18 months for storing duty-unpaid cigarettes, evasion of duty and GST

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SINGAPORE - A Singaporean man was sentenced to 18 months in jail last week for storing duty-unpaid cigarettes and for evasion of duty and goods and services tax by inflating in permits the quantity o

f duty-unpaid cigarettes he was supplying to ships.

These cigarettes, considered as exports when supplied to ships as provisions, were exempted from duty and GST. He diverted the excess cigarettes inland and stored them at VSL's premises for either resale or personal consumption. Tan pleaded guilty to one charge of storing duty-unpaid cigarettes and nine charges of fraudulent evasion of duty.Another charge of storing duty-unpaid cigarettes and 25 charges of fraudulent evasion of duty and GST were taken into consideration during sentencing.

 

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