Duty-free liquor allowance to change from April 2010

[feb01mel]

Duty-free liquor allowance to change from April 2010

Posted: 22 March 2010

SINGAPORE: From April 2010, the duty-free allowance for liquor will be changed to allow for an additional one litre of wine or beer in lieu of one litre of spirits. This was announced by Singapore Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam in his Budget statement in February.

Currently, the duty-free allowance is one litre each for spirits, wine and beer - including stout, ale and porter.

Singapore Customs said travellers with quantities of liquor that exceed the duty-free allowance have to declare them, and pay duty plus GST on the excess quantities.

Payment can be made at either the Tax Payment kiosks located at Changi Airport or at the Singapore Customs Tax Payment offices.

The conditions for duty-free liquor remain unchanged.

- CNA/sc

[scooby5]

Only April? Ooops, it was announced in the budget a couple of weeks ago and i already took the advantage to brink in more wine last Friday thinking it was one of those instant changes......like tax on petrol or cigarettes coming in force at midnight after the budget.

[jjpb3]

The restriction on the volume of liquor by type has always mystified me: it seemed simpler to implement a total-volume restriction.

Then again, my brother would probably ask for 2 liters of JW and/or JD as his pasalubong.

[Pinkfloyd]

So it's only for an additional bottle of wine or beer if one does not bring in spirits... Is it possible to, say, skip the wine for an additional bottle of spirits or a litre of beer?

[jjpb3]

Since the duty seems to be based on the alcohol content, probably not on the spirits.

if you're my brother, if you're my sister-in-law.

[Pinkfloyd]

Always found it strange why they only allow 1 litre (effectively 3 cans) of beer, considering 1 litre of spirits, even wine to a certain extent, gets you a longer way than 3 cans of beer! They should just allow a 6-pack...

[Kyo]

Does this mean that I can't bring in 2L of spirits? (as per my interpretation?)

Because my preference would be: Wine (1L) and/or spirits (2L), I don't really purchase beer

[scooby5]

Does this mean that I can't bring in 2L of spirits? (as per my interpretation?)

Correct.

You are giving up your 1L of sprit for an extra litre of EITHER wine or beer.

[Kyo]

Ah, that's crap then. Wine's not exactly reasonably priced here in Singapore, even at DFS, and beer I don't drink, so I'm SOL then