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The only survey to examine and analyse the global tax stamp market for alcohol and tobacco providing invaluable insight for governments, manufacturers and suppliers.

 

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The Tax Stamp Forum is the only global Event to focus on the rapidly-growing and evolving field of excise stamp specification, production and implementation for alcohol and tobacco products.

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April 2013 Highlights

Confusion Abounds – Tax Stamps Need Classifying

In the February issue of Tax Stamp News we ran an editorial entitled 'Coding is not the Same as Authentication'. As a quick reminder, there is a view gathering momentum that codes containing a unique number in a data matrix, QR code or similar serve to authenticate the item they are on. In our view, no visible code number on its own is an authentication feature, whatever form that number takes, if it relies on an external server for validation.

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