Own up to your duties, warns Canadian border services after $16K fine on luxury watch
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It doesn't pay to skip declarations, Canadian border services says -- just ask the person who was fined more than $16,000 for trying to enter Quebec with a luxury watch they presented as not very luxurious. The agency released its end-of-year roundup Friday.
In its annual end-of-year round-up of notable events in Quebec, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) says that traveller proves the point that the fine is often worse than the tax.
"On July 27, at the St-Armand border crossing, officers intercepted a luxury watch undervalued by $21,500," the agency wrote.
That border crossing is not Quebec's biggest -- it is just east of Lake Champlain, on the route from Burlington, Vermont.
After the watch was found to be much nicer than advertised by the traveller, the traveller was slapped with a total penalty of $16,155.69, the CBSA wrote.
