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Nicola Sudan

11 Aug. 2021

3 min read

Bahrain and Qatar to Start Using Tax Stamps for First Time

Bahrain’s National Bureau for Revenue (NBR) and the General Tax Authority (GTA) of Qatar have recently announced the signature of new contracts with De La Rue for the provision of national digital tax stamp and traceability programmes on a number of excise goods.

Countries Tax Stamps

Chander S Jeena

29 April 2021

5 min read

Latest Tax Stamp and Traceability Developments in Nepal

Nepal has been using excise stamps (hereinafter referred to as tax stamps) for more than two decades now, with the stamps effectively contributing to government tax revenue. Indeed, every year, the Nepalese government generates 57 billion Nepalese rupees ($477 million) from excise duty, value-added tax, and health hazard tax imposed on cigarettes and alcohol.

Countries Tax Stamps Track and Trace

Nicola Sudan

27 Jan. 2021

2 min read

Liberia Begins Month-Long Workshop on Tax Stamp Implementation

At the beginning of January, the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), began a month-long training workshop on the procedures and processes leading to the implementation of excise tax stamps on several products sold on the Liberian market, reports LRA on its Facebook page.

Countries Tax Stamps

Nicola Sudan

10 Dec. 2020

4 min read

News in Brief

The National Office of Vine and Vitivinicultural Products (ONVPV) in Romania is using holographic labelling from security printer Eltronis to promote the provenance of its regional wines and protect consumers from potential counterfeits.

Excise Products Tax Stamps

Nicola Sudan

30 Oct. 2020

1 min read

Tanzania to Launch Phase 3 of ‘Electronic’ Tax Stamp Programme

In January 2019, Tanzania rolled out the first phase of its ‘Electronic Tax Stamp’ (ETS) programme, on cigarettes, spirits, wine and beer, followed seven months later by domestic and imported flavoured water and carbonated drinks.

Countries Tax Stamps

Nicola Sudan

30 Sept. 2020

1 min read

Liberia Introduces Tax Stamps for First Time

The West African country of Liberia will this year be introducing tax stamps for the first time. In the second quarter of 2020, the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) awarded a contract to Madras Security Printers for tax stamps on tobacco products, spirits, wine, beer and non-alcoholic beverages.

Tax Stamps

Nicola Sudan

30 July 2020

4 min read

Recent Developments in Document Biometrics for Tax Stamps

The term ‘biometrics’ is commonly used to describe technologies that employ human features that are unique to individuals – such as fingerprints or retinal eye patterns – as a way to identify those individuals. But the term is also employed, within the authentication industry, to describe technologies which use the intrinsic microscopic or molecular properties unique to items such as tax stamps to identify and thereby authenticate those items. Hence the term ‘document biometrics’, or ‘fingerprinting’.

Authentication Tax Stamps Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

7 Nov. 2019

2 min read

Uganda Launches Tax Stamps on Six Different Products… All In One Go!

Uganda has launched its new tax stamp and traceability programme on six different products: beer, spirits, wine, soda, mineral water and tobacco products.

Tax Stamps Track and Trace

Latest News

Bahrain and Qatar to Start Using Tax Stamps for First Time

Latest Tax Stamp and Traceability Developments in Nepal

Liberia Begins Month-Long Workshop on Tax Stamp Implementation

News in Brief

Tanzania to Launch Phase 3 of ‘Electronic’ Tax Stamp Programme

Liberia Introduces Tax Stamps for First Time

Recent Developments in Document Biometrics for Tax Stamps

Uganda Launches Tax Stamps on Six Different Products… All In One Go!

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