Tobacco smuggling into Japan surged in the April-June period as domestic stocks ran short after the March 11 disaster, with around 300,000 illegally imported cigarettes seized by authorities, a roughly 8.7-fold increase from a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said Monday.
Many cases involved individuals hiding tobacco inside their suitcases, while Tokyo Customs detected a group in May which attempted to smuggle some 30,000 cigarettes from the Philippines, according to the ministry.
The ministry also reported 4,226 businesses failed to declare a total of 193.3 billion yen of tariffs and consumption tax imposed on imported goods in the year from July 2010 through June this year, leading the authorities to impose some 13.5 billion yen of back tax.
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