Following complaints, the Guyana Revenue Authority Commissioner Godffrey Statia yesterday confirmed that the tax body has granted permission for sex toys to be imported for personal use.
“Complaints have been received from persons who import such items that these are not obscene articles as per the current interpretation and treatment. The Customs, Excise and Trade Operations over the years have been treating the importation of “sex toys” and other similar articles as prohibited items, under the item 4 of Part 1 of the List of Prohibited Imports in the Second Schedule to the Customs Act, Chapter 82:01,” a GRA circular from Statia to “all officers of the Customs, Excise and Trade Operations states.
