(Uzbekistan Tax News Reporter - 12 September 1996)

With effect from 1 October 1996 all tobacco products and spirits (except beer) produced in or imported into Uzbekistan should bear compulsory excise stamps ("banderoles") which will be distributed though banks nominated by the Cabinet of Ministers. Sale of such goods will be forbidden unless they bear excise banderoles.

Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan 14 August 1996

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