Selling UK liquor

kay 9

Is this legal? Thanks.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Can you elaborate on your question? Do you mean restaurants selling wine sourced in northern Ireland, UK made drinks, booze bought by you in the UK and reselling it, or what?

Geuze

Free trade within the EU.

Once you have any required licences, and pay the appropriate excise duty, you are free to import alcohol.

kay 9

Blaire Freezing Metropolis wrote: »

Can you elaborate on your question? Do you mean restaurants selling wine sourced in northern Ireland, UK made drinks, booze bought by you in the UK and reselling it, or what?

As in selling alcohol without paying duty. Trying to hide the UK tab on bottle. What are the consequences? Paid full price this eve for what I suspect the retailer imported and didnt pay duty.

foggy_lad

kay 9 wrote: »

Is this legal? Thanks.

No. Unless you have a license to import it and have paid all appropriate duty and vat for it.

Alcohol may be brought into the country from other eu states for personal consumption only and may not be sold.

keithclancy

Geuze wrote: »

Free trade within the EU.

Once you have any required licences, and pay the appropriate excise duty, you are free to import alcohol.

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/carry/alcohol-tobacco-cash/index_en.htm

If you are carrying more tobacco or alcohol than the amounts automatically allowed for personal use, you may be asked:

to prove that they are for your personal use

And if you had to pay the Duty on imported alcohol it wouldn't be worth your while.

coylemj

kay 9 wrote: »

As in selling alcohol without paying duty. Trying to hide the UK tab on bottle. What are the consequences? Paid full price this eve for what I suspect the retailer imported and didnt pay duty.

If the retailer brought it in duty-free or simply drove up to Newry or Lisburn and packed a load of booze into a van with the intention of selling it here then that would be illegal as anything imported into the state for the purposes of being sold via retail or in a pub would be liable for excise duty.

Other posters are answering on the basis of what you can bring in for personal use which is not the situation here.

Pick up the phone on Monday and call your local revenue office, ask to speak to the excise people and discuss it with them.

Mr Simpson

It's kind of complicated, you need to have an importers licence, and then circumstances change depending on whether duty has been paid or held. Revenue have a guide on their website if you google it, I was only reading it the other day.

rubadub

Tesco & eurospar regularly are selling UK market alcohol. So a restaurant could have bought from a supermarket here and sold it on, which is fine.

I also would be surprised if there is not some "grey area" importer doing all the difficult tax & duty work and selling to restaurants & small offies. e.g. bring in truck loads of cheap heineken from scotland, doing all the duty work & still being able to sell it on for far less than the heineken wholesale price here.

L1011

Local newsagents has long since moved to sourcing a huge % of alcohol from the UK - the wholesale prices, particularly Diageo ones, in Ireland are hideous compared to the UK.