Bahrain News: Cigarettes with digital stamps arrive in Bahrain – Gulf Digital News

Bahrain News: Cigarettes with digital stamps arrive in Bahrain – Gulf Digital News

The National Bureau for Revenue (NBR), in co-operation with the Customs Affairs, has announced the arrival of the first shipment of cigarette packs with digital stamps at Bahrain’s customs clearance ports. The Digital Stamps Scheme aims to track excise goods from the manufacturing stage up to the point of consumption through digital stamps and intends to limit the smuggling of excise goods into the kingdom, protecting consumers against the circulation of counterfeit or illegal products and ensuring the effectiveness of government revenue collection .