Last Monday (08), the Mozambican Tax Authority (AT) seized an ore transport truck on the National Road (N4) containing 1,181 cases of smuggled alcoholic beverages. A note from the AT states that the seizure of this merchandise, valued at more than one million meticais, comes days after the institution's operational lines...
Tag: Alcoholic Beverages
Ban on billboards advertising alcoholic beverages near public institutions
The National Inspectorate of Economic Activities (INAE) has announced that it will now be forbidden to display billboards advertising alcoholic beverages near public institutions, schools, hospitals and on television at inappropriate times. Speaking yesterday, Thursday (04), INAE's national director for Education, Sport and Culture, Leonor Mabutana, at a press conference...
Sealing of alcoholic beverages and tobacco earns the state more than 8 billion meticais
The Mozambican Tax Authority (AT) collected almost 8.1 billion meticais last year as a result of the implementation of the program to seal alcoholic beverages and manufactured tobacco. According to the deputy director-general of Customs, Fernando Alage, who was speaking yesterday, Wednesday (24), during the launch of the Border Control and Monitoring Project through...
AT seizes alcohol worth more than 2 million meticais
The Mozambican Tax Authority (AT) has intercepted around 3,000 cases of contraband alcoholic beverages valued at more than two million meticais from neighboring South Africa. According to the newspaper "O País", the contraband alcoholic drinks were seized inside a warehouse in Matola. According to the authorities...
Alcohol counterfeiters arrested in Maputo city
Two individuals were arrested by the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) on charges of counterfeiting and selling alcoholic beverages. The case took place this Saturday, at around 9pm, in the Luís Cabral neighborhood of Maputo city. According to the PRM, the accused had been collecting empty bottles of certain brands of beer and...
From today: Interdicts circulation and sale of alcoholic beverages without fiscal stamp
As of today, Tuesday 02.05, the circulation and sale on the national market of alcoholic beverages without a tax control seal is prohibited. The measure is part of the mandatory beverage sealing program. According to RM, the rule, which has been implemented gradually, enters its third phase today, and includes...
AT seizes more than 200 cases of alcoholic beverages in Maputo City
The Mozambican Tax Authority seized more than 200 cases of smuggled alcoholic beverages from a residence that served as a warehouse in the Chamanculo neighborhood on Monday, an official customs source said. Without revealing the origin, Fernando Tinga, spokesman for the Tax Authority, said that spirits, wines and beers were seized at the scene. "The seizure is the result of...
Tax Authority seizes more than 500 boxes of alcoholic beverages without fiscal seal
Joint forces of the Tax Authority (AT) and the Police of the Republic of Mozambique seized last Friday, in Maputo city, more than 500 boxes of different types of alcoholic beverages. These are imported products, but do not bear the mandatory tax stamp. The collection of unsealed beverages took place at Estrela Vermelha market, in the city of...
AT bans sale of unsealed alcoholic beverages in Mozambique
The Tax Authority (AT) will ban the circulation and sale of alcoholic beverages without a stamp, starting next month, in the Mozambican territory. And, according to the President of the AT, Amélia Muendane, all control mechanisms will be ensured. In fact, 10 tax cooperatives will be created in each province of Mozambique, until the end...
Phase III of the sealing of beers and other alcoholic beverages starts today
The Government starts today, throughout the country, the third phase of the process of sealing beers and other alcoholic beverages. According to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the commitment to continue working with the Association of Producers and Importers of Alcoholic Beverages (APIBA) in order to overcome the challenges of the sector, due to the impacts...