Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:48:18 +0100
From: GSV Three Minds in a Can 
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air uk.finance
Subject: Re: D Tel: Travellers with over £6,700 must tell taxman
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Bitstring <5dhsu7F33066lU1@mid.individual.net>, from the wonderful 
person hummingbird  said
>On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:51:20 -0000  'google.2.zolpot@spamgourmet.com'
>posted this onto rec.travel.air:
>
>>Travellers with over £6,700 must tell taxman
>>Daily Telegraph
>>
>>A new EU law that makes it an offence to take more than 10,000 euros
>>(£6,760) out of the country without telling the tax authorities could
>>trip up owners of homes overseas and pensioners taking the holiday of
>>a lifetime.
>
>>Accountants likened the law to a stealthy re-introduction of exchange
>>controls which Margaret Thatcher's administration abolished in 1979.
>
>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/16/ncurren
>>cy116.xml
>
>
>"The road to tyranny is paved with good intentions."

If you're taking 6.7k£ =CASH= out of the country you are either bent, or 
stupid. A robbery waiting to happen. Now if the limit applies to TCs, or 
credit/debit cards, then it would be a problem for some people.

-- 
GSV   Three Minds in a Can
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