ITSA Webinar: Tax Stamp and Traceability Systems on Excisable Products: What Works, What Fails, What’s Ahead
11 Dec 2025 | Press Releases
This webinar took place on 24 September 2025, and was previously only available to ITSA members. It is now publicly available and can be viewed at this link.
About This Webinar
As an increasing number of governments move toward implementing track and trace systems to control their excisable goods supply chain and curb illicit trade, this webinar addressed the prerequisites for implementing successful systems, including the use of tax stamps to enable secure and independent track and trace and real-time production monitoring.
ITSA was delighted to welcome Dr Hana Ross, from the University of Cape Town and Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, as guest speaker at this event. Dr Ross examined the dos and don’ts for achieving track and trace success, referring to real-world cases of successful and failed systems.
The webinar also discussed what a digital-only track and trace system, without physical security features, could typically consist of, and what type of fraudulent schemes could thrive, undetected, under such a system. It went on to present use cases that have combined physical and digital technologies to positive effect, in terms of increased revenues and taxpayer compliance.
