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THE REVENUE COMMISSIONERS have seized over 25,700 litres of beer at Dublin Port.
The seized alcohol has a retail value of over €165,000.
That translates into a loss to the taxpayer of €65,800.
The driver of the foreign-registered truck-trailer travelling from Holyhead in Britain and carrying the smuggled goods, a man in his 20s, was questioned at the scene following he search yesterday.
Investigations are ongoing.
Anyone with information regarding the haul, or where it may have been planned to be sold, can talk to Revenue in confidence on 1800 295295.
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Revenues Christmas party shaping up nicely this year…
@John Ryan: It’s called Heavenue now kid !
Loss to the taxpayer, nice spin, loss to the taxman more like.
@Kevin Moylan: Better Michael D than some of the other nitwits
@Kevin Moylan:
It will cover the wages of one or two wasters in the Dail for sure.
The most glaring thing about this is realising that beer is taxed at 40%
@Peter Canada: petrol is taxed at 75%ish , screwed in every way.
Jesus, what I’d do for a bag of revenue seized cans with the lads now!!
They are valuing it at €3.20 a can retail. Nonsense.
What’s the most it could be sold at for smuggled hooch? A euro a can? 1.50 max, that’s €38,000 total.
Complete waste of time of an operation, have to be polish.
@Bernie Roche: I am always amazed at how they pad out the value of garda seizures in their press releases. A recent cannabis haul was valued at more per kg than one in 1996. I could be wrong now – drug dealers may very well have their prices index-linked / adjusted for inflation. Maybe there is some kind of consumer price index for the more criminally-inclined that takes median household income and other measures into account. Or maybe garda seizure figures are padded out, although that really doesn’t sound like something that they would do.
@Stephen Rogan: Not really sure how it works, but it would seem pretty obvious to me that it’s going to be more expensive now than in 96, cash is pretty worthless and drugs are very valuable commodity.
@Bernie Roche: it works out at 1.92 a can by my calculations… which isn’t far off
@Alan James Dowd: What’s your calculations? I divided the stated retail value by the amount of litres and got €6.42 a litre.
dilly dilly
@purple rain: whassssuuuppp!
I’ll get you beer baron
@Brian McDonnell: No you won’t!
€6.4/litre??? Do they pull these figures out of their a****? We all know that the real scam is the amount of tax on alcohol in many other EU countries it is half the price or even less than a quarter of the price!
The haul was said to have been destined for Brett Kavanaugh’s fridge.
Not sure who did the sums, not 165k worth of beer !!
eastern europeans?
It wouldn’t be easy to hide that amount of beer. And yet if it was seized the guy behind the venture would be down 165K. Unless he’d done it before a few times and felt confident. Or maybe he thought he had an inside man who would wave him through. It’s a strange one.
@Sean: Strange one alright, there’s no way anyone paid €165,000 for that though
Ah ffs
Who cares
Whoop de do yer great lads
They’d hardly destroy it would they?
Cancelling christmas
That’s cheaper then my local
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