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Duty on cigarettes
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06/09/2016 09:20 AM
06/09/2016 09:20 AM
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We generally bring back a few cartons of cigarettes from SXM, always declared them and never have been charged any duty on them. We brought back 4 cartons this trip, 2 over the 'free' allowance. We declared them and the customs guy said "You know the duty is $10 per carton?" We actually didn't know that. We always thought it was 10%. It didn't matter that much, they are still cheaper, even with the duty, which is what we told him. He said OK and just let us go. We looked it up, as we thought it was a percentage, but it turns out he is right.. Duty info Just thought I would let people know, who probably thought as we did.
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Re: Duty on cigarettes
[Re: Shelby2]
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06/09/2016 10:19 AM
06/09/2016 10:19 AM
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Shelby,
Yikes!!
Did I understand you correctly? Cigarettes are $140.00 for a carton in NY. Wow! I had no idea.......
Many years ago, when we were younger, both my DH and I smoked and I allowed $5.00 a week in the grocery budget each week for two cartons of cigarettes, and about every third or fourth week we didn't have to buy them so we were $5.00 to the good that week.
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Re: Duty on cigarettes
[Re: ronwald1]
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06/09/2016 12:24 PM
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Agreed, that's why I posted it. The page that I linked to is dated 2013, so I guess it's been at least that long. We actually thought the guy was wrong, which is why I looked it up.
And again, not posted for the sake of encouraging anyone to smoke, or do anything else, but for information sake.
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