Speak for yourself, wrathmonk - I was always scrupulously honest with HMRC and they never, ever shafted me. In fact they would often charge
far less than perhaps they should have.
One Christmas I 'self declared' a fair amount of stuff from the USA via the 'blank cheque and honesty box' system at Brize - they never charged me a penny.
mams,
if what you say is true (and I hope it isn't), then perhaps the SIB and HMRC will be on the case pretty schnell. As indeed they should.
On the way from Deci back to Wattisham, I once witnessed a VC10 navigator trying to have a conversation with a casualty on a stretcher after we'd bent into Wildenrath for an aeromed case - bloke was plumbed into a drip and surrounded by anxious-looking Paraffins.....
"Are you taking any duty free home, mate?", was the navigator's opening comment......
Chief Paraffin was most assuredly NOT happy!