Botswana: Burs Fights Smuggling – allAfrica.com

The Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) has ramped up efforts to curb the smuggling of goods into the country, such as prohibited vegetables and illegal tobacco products, by intensifying physical searches at all ports of entry and deploying its K-9 unit to bolster border security. Reports have been rife that some of big retailers are smuggling and undeclaring vegetables produce sourced from South Africa into the country, with that jeopardizing BURS tax collection capacity. Briefing the media…