Since January 2009, all duty-paid cigarettes sold in Singapore without the SDPC marking are deemed duty-unpaid.

 

Anyone caught selling, buying, or possessing duty-paid cigarettes without the SDPC marking is classified as an offender under the Customs Act and Goods and Services Tax Act.

 

Peddlers of duty-unpaid cigarettes will be arrested and charged in court.

 

Buying, selling, conveying, delivering, storing, keeping, possessing or dealing with duty-unpaid goods are serious offences under the Customs Act.

 

Offenders can be fined up to 40 times the amount of duty evaded and/or jailed up to six years.