The hike in taxes on gold imports is retrograde. Taxes on gold, a high-priced commodity, reaching almost 19% breaches the arbitrage threshold where smuggling becomes profitable. A big gain of the 1991 reform was putting an end to gold smuggling, which financed malevolent mafias. It’d be imprudent to reverse that.
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