Professional Counterfeit Tax Stamps Cost Tens of Billions

The purpose of tax stamps is to control the commerce of taxable items (such as cigarettes) at the federal level, and to collect the revenue due to the government.

The purpose of tax stamps is continually undermined by counterfeiting operations:

• Professional lookalike tax stamps have copied even the most relied-on security features.
• Counterfeit tax stamps appear on the packaging of both genuine and imitation products.
• Counterfeit stamps are nearly impossible to detect, routinely bypassing tax collection authorities.
• Counterfeiters earn huge profits, with government losses totaling billions of dollars.
• The public is exposed to substandard or even dangerous products.

Inksure's cutting-edge covert technology has over a decade of proven success in creating tens of billions of tax stamps and tax marks worldwide, which are easy to authenticate and have never been counterfeited.

The Inksure Advantage: Taggant Technology

1. Inksure taggants are robust and durable, providing forensic-level evidence even if the tax stamp suffers damage or physical destruction.
2. On-site field inspections can be performed on thousands of items, quickly and efficiently.
3. Taggants can withstand a variety of weather conditions
4. The instant, one-pass capability of Inksure tax-stamp identification eliminates the need for destructive inspection of the package, or back-office testing of the product.
5. The flexibility of Inksure taggants can provide stamp protection at the project level or per-item level.
6. Tax stamp security is enhanced by either printing the taggant directly on the stamp or adding a hot stamp mark.

Counterfeits that Impact a Nation's Economy

The goal of security marks on bank notes is to safeguard the value of the currency, a fundamental asset of a country's economy.

Their value makes bank notes a prime target for counterfeiters. For the top levels of organized crime, the motive is profit, while others seek to undermine the national security of an enemy by flooding the market with fake currency.

Some currencies are facing a challenge of global proportions, which requires the most sophisticated protection available: covert taggants.

Inksure's cutting-edge covert taggant technology has over a decade of proven success in implementing tens of billions of covert features worldwide, including one of the world's most secure markers for bank notes.

The Inksure Advantage

1. The Inksure bank-note mark is a separate class of taggant, dedicated exclusively to bank note authentication.
2. Inksure taggants are robust and durable, providing forensic-level evidence even if the bank note suffers damage or physical deterioration.
3. Inksure can check currency authenticity and fast-sort different denominations at the same time, utilizing Inksure's patented SortSure reader.
4. SortSure can be integrated into existing banknote fast-sorters with minimal changes.

Tax Stamps

Currently, Inksure is enabling countries to eliminate lost tax revenue in Europe, Asia and North America. The government of Ukraine recently reported an increase of $200 million USD of tobacco and alcohol taxes after implementing InkSure's taggant technology in its tax stamps.

Bank Notes

Inksure successfully tested the ability of Inksure taggants in safeguarding high-value bank notes with a central bank responsible for that currency. The testers reported successful integration of Inksure's taggants with their automated sorting system. Bank notes were sorted with 100 percent accuracy, while all counterfeit notes mixed in with the genuine bills were identified and removed.

Inksure specialists stand ready to advise you on the integration of our taggant technology into your security-mark arsenal, for unparalleled protection.