The Tax Take with Brian Keegan
Even in a best-case scenario, Brexit means the return of customs controls between Ireland and Britain and this time around my school principal isn’t around to pick up the tab
Customs duty: a not-so-golden oldie
Probably my first experience of the sharp end of Revenue collection enforcement came when I was still in secondary school. Back in the 1980s, we used to buy music singles from a mail-order record outfit in the US because the prices were marginally cheaper. One particular day, a package of records arrived at school with customs due on it, a possibility we had blithely ignored when placing the ...