From: Herald Sun
Border Force officers seize black market tobacco worth over $2 million in lost taxes
David Hurley
- Australian Border Force officers hit illegal tobacco syndicate in dawn raid
- Illegal tobacco costing Australian government $1.61bn, report reveals
- New tobacco strike team units to fight illegal chop chop and cigarettes
- Illegal cigarettes: $2.7 million worth seized from Melbourne storage unit
BORDER officials have seized illegal tobacco worth $205 million in evaded taxes so far in the last financial year alone.
The Australian Border Force has made 103 detections of undeclared tobacco in sea cargo and 48,322 detections of undeclared tobacco in international mail to date in 2016/17.
