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border with Gibraltar residents and Andorra may only bring 200 cigarettes without tax a month in Spain

The PSOE justified in recent years there has been a "substantial increase" in imports

The Government, through the Socialist Group in the Senate, has tabled an amendment the reform project of the Organic Law on Suppression of contraband with which he intends to reduce to 200 cigarettes per month, tax exemptions on VAT and Excise for "resident travelers" and "frontier workers" of the border with Gibraltar and the Principality Andorra.

To this end, the amendment to seen by Europa Press considered English territory border zone that extends 15 kilometers in a straight line from each camp, including all the municipalities whose territorial jurisdiction is a part, "even if part" in this area.

The PSOE justified its proposal that in recent years there has been a "substantial increase" in imports duty-free packs of snuff from Gibraltar through the Office of the Linea de la Concepcion and the Principality of Andorra through the Office of the Forge of Moles.

According to European Directive.

The proposal notes that the system of reliefs Customs states that customs exemptions for goods in the luggage of travelers from third countries are exempted from import duties when, for the same operation, are of VAT and excise duty of goods according to Directive 2007/74/EC.

With regard to cigarette packets imported by travelers, Article 8 of the Directive stipulates that Member States shall exempt from VAT and excise duties on this product when the quantity transported less than 200 cigarettes.

FOR THE REST OF PASSENGERS AND IS LIMITED.

However, it also states that may reduce monetary and quantitative thresholds for exemption of goods carried by passengers who are "living in the border area", "frontier workers" or "personal means of transport" to travel from a territory where not applicable Community rules on VAT or excise duty.

Currently, the legislation states that the exemptions to the introduction of snuff from third countries by passengers is limited to 200 cigarettes, 100 cigarillos, 50 cigars or 250 grams of the remaining work, but not to allude to English living in the border zone or routinely travel to Gibraltar and Andorra work.