Customs Officers Discovered 200 Live Animals in the Previous Year
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Austria's customs officers discovered 200 live animals in the previous year. In addition, 3350 goods were withdrawn from the market, which were produced from species-protected animals and plants. Among them were a dead Nile crocodile, corals and medicines containing ingredients of protected species. State Secretary Barbara Eibinger-Miedl (ÖVP) presented the annual balance in Vienna on Wednesday 2024. A Salzburger was sentenced to three months of…
In the previous year, Austrian customs collected taxes amounting to around EUR 8.3 billion. The largest revenues were taxes based on the mineral oil tax, the tobacco tax and the national emission allowance trade.
In 2024, the Austrian customs took taxes amounting to around 8.2 billion euros - and thus about 0.1 billion more than 2023. This is "a very important contribution in times of budget consolidation", said Secretary of State Barbara Eibinger-Miedl (ÖVP) at the presentation of the balance sheet on Wednesday in Vienna. For this purpose, more than 6.6 million customs clearances and 635,176 controls were carried out. The latter increased by about 4.6 p…
VIENNA. Z llner secured honey, addictive poison and a tiger's head, among other things, in the previous year.
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