For the Public and Community Safety Support Group, Bogo Customs (Satpol PP) provides education on how to recognize tax bands and the characteristics of illegal cigarettes.
How to identify the characteristics of tax belts and illegal tobacco education
Express DDTC News reported on August 5th. Utilizing its vertical unit, the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC) we are working to reduce the space for the circulation of illicit cigarettes. The latest news is that the Bogo Customs Service for Public and Community Safety Support Group (Satpol PP) has provided education on how to recognize tax bands and the characteristics of illegal cigarettes.
Erli Haryanto, head of the Bogo Customs Publicity and Education Department (Erli Haryanto) They said they partnered with the Community Safety Support Group in Sukabumi County to provide on-site vendors and community safety support group staff on how to determine what are illegal cigarettes.
“In this outreach, the characteristics of five types of illegal cigarettes were explained, namely cigarettes without tax bands (naked cigarettes), cigarettes with fake tax bands, cigarettes with used tax bands, cigarettes with tax bands for the wrong purpose, and cigarettes with incorrectly personalized tax bands,” Erli said in the beacukai on Monday (August 5, 2024). ” beacukai.go.id says.
Education of illicit tobacco identification method exercises
Additionally, there are two other characteristics of illegal cigarettes. Namely, the brands are usually uncommon or specific to big brands, and they are very cheap.
Subsequently. The characteristics of legal cigarettes included having a tax band on the tobacco package, authentic tax bands with specific characteristics, tax bands in good condition, and properly used tax bands.
To test participants’ understanding of the material discussed. Bogo Customs also conducted hands-on training on illicit cigarette identification methods.
Interestingly. All the sensitization activities organized by the Bogo Customs were funded by the Division of Tobacco Taxes into Funds (DBHCHT) as an effort of the participants in the awareness of the characteristics of illicit cigarettes.
Through this campaign. The customs hope that more and more members of the public will help the Customs combat the circulation of illicit cigarettes without the need to consume or sell them and provide data when it comes to information on the circulation of relevant illicit cigarettes.
