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23,000 fined $7m for tax evasion at S'pore checkpoints from Jan to Oct
The Straits Times
|December 02, 2025
A woman arriving from Malaysia on Oct 18 attempted to exit the arrival hall at Changi Airport via the green channel without declaring a pewter Bearbrick collectible figurine that was in her possession — and was fined $565 for it.
She was one of more than 23,000 travellers who were caught and fined a total of $7,114,850 from January to October 2025, said the Singapore Customs in a media release on Dec 1.
These travellers were caught across air, land and sea checkpoints and fined for not declaring dutiable and taxable goods brought into Singapore.
The amount meted out in the first 10 months of 2025 was more than double the $3,471,043 imposed over the same period in 2024. In the same period in 2023, $2,303,380 was imposed.
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