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Bootleggers beware! The UK Customs and Excise Department is spending millions on surveillance cameras to film vehicles passing through Channel ports.
So the number plates of every car and van will be logged and the Customs will know who has been going where and how often. The video crackdown comes as official Treasury figures reveal that bootleggers importing drink and tobacco from France and other Continental countries with low duties evaded tax of £770 million last year - almost three times the estimated amount for the previous year.

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You do not have to pay any tax or duty in the UK on goods you have bought in other EU countries for your own use, but remember the following:
"Own use" includes gifts, but you may be breaking the law if you sell goods that you have bought. If you are caught selling the goods, they will be taken off you and you could get up to seven years in prison. Any vehicle you used to transport the goods could also be taken off you.
The law sets out guidelines for the amount of alcohol and tobacco
you can bring into the UK.

You do not have to pay any tax or duty in the UK on goods you have bought in other EU countries for your own use, but remember the following:
"Own use" includes gifts, but you may be breaking the law if you sell goods you have bought.
If you are caught selling the goods, they will be taken off you and you could get up to seven years in prison and any vehicle you used to

These are the amounts of alcohol and tobacco purchased in the EU which are regarded by the Customs as reasonable for personal use.

transport the goods could also be taken off you as well.
The law sets out guidelines for the amount of alcohol and tobacco you can bring into the UK. If you bring in more than this, you must be able to satisfy the Customs officer, if you are asked, that the goods are for your own use. If you can't, the goods may be taken off you.

Cigarettes 800
Cigarillos 400
Cigars 200
Smoking tobacco 1 kg

Spirits 10 litres
Wine 90 litres (only
60 litres of this can
be sparkling wine)

Fortified wine (such as port and sherry) 20 Litres
Beer 110 Litres

What you can bring back