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Storing more than 5 litres of foreign alcohol without receipts at home is forbidden

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Storing more than 5 litres of foreign alcohol without receipts at home is forbidden

It turns out that it is allowed to store at home only 15 litres of Belarusian and 5 litres of foreign alcohol without receipts.

A collector from Homel kept about 200 bottles of expensive alcoholic drinks at home. As it turns out, the Administrative Code allows storing only 15 litres of alcohol with Belarusian excise stamps without documents that confirm the purchase, Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarusi reports.

“You can store as much alcohol bought in Belarus as you want if you have receipts. The collector didn't have them. He accepted alcohol as gifts and didn't know about the law. Fifteen litres that he can store were left, but 178 bottles of vodka, whiskey, vine, liquor, rum and brandy were confiscated. The man was issued a fine of 2 million rubles,” Tatsiana Hiunter, deputy head of Homel's Savetski district tax office, said.

She explained that if people are going to have, for example, a wedding party, they can buy and store as much alcohol bought in Belarus with receipts as they want, but the rule is not applied to the drinks bought abroad. One person is allowed to store at home and carry only 5 litres of Georgian, Ukrainian, Spanish and other alcohol without excise stamps:

“We control roads together with the road police, check the cars that return from abroad and confiscate excess alcohol. The offence can be punished with a fine of up to 100 basic units (18 million rubles),” tax officers say.

According to unofficial sources, the collector works as a doctor and accepted alcohol from his patients as presents. The tax office was informed about the collection by whistleblowers.

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