2024 – A Year in Headlines

January

Interviews with International Tax Stamp Association (ITSA) members in 2023 – common threads and differences; implementing Lebanon’s tobacco authentication and traceability solution; Pakistan contemplates track and trace on beverages; authentication and inspection practices – what really happens in the field; new study compares major illicit trade hubs.

February

Spring cleaning at Chile tax authority – renovated programme in the works; legalising recreational cannabis – the Canadian experience; ITSA recommends steps to strengthen EU digital product passport; key decisions made – and not made – at Third Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products; interview with an ITSA member – OpSec Security; the Optical & Digital Document Security™ conference continues big debate – the transition from physical to digital.

March

Indian state of Uttarakhand invites bids for full polyester holographic tax stamps amid protests stamps contravene countrywide ban on single-use plastic items below 100 microns; Crane NXT to acquire OpSec Security; Pakistan’s tax authority – a white elephant; why some tax stamp programmes fail; a comparison of fuel traceability options; illicit tobacco in South-East Asia ‘not alarmingly high’, WHO says; interview with an ITSA member – JURA; state of illicit tobacco in South Africa – still disastrous; innovations in tamper-proofing.