London : Revenue has no plans to set up customs posts on the border if there is a hard Brexit, its chairman said. Niall Cody said that he expected most customs checks after the UK’s departure from the EU to be done online, without the need for physical inspections.
He told the Oireachtas finance committee yesterday that any physical checks on imported products would “to the greatest extent possible take place at traders’ premises away from the point of importation”.
In the event of a no-deal Brexit, the government would need to have “difficult conversations” with the European Commission to work how controls on north-south trade would work, he said.