Its a serious problem throughout the 90s tobacco fraud alone amounted to £1.5 Billion a year, its currently about 500 million a year

So everyone trying to get a cheap (illegal) deal is costing us (in billions):
fags 0.5
Booze 0.4
VAT missing trader 2.0
fuel NI 0.7
fuel rest UK 0.5
So thats 4.1 billion on just import fuels and high tax goods

Total fraud costs £30 billion a year. Thats £621 a year for each adult

Id rather 30 billion a year extra was being paid off on the national deficit than allowing you to have cheaper fags/booze which are luxury goods you DONT need.