Why are there Duty Free stores?

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After countries go thru all the trouble of taxing imports, why then would they allow ppl to just buy whatever they want duty free? Why do these shops exist? What benefit do they serve? And why are they only at airports?

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Duty free is available all over the place, look for the little sticker at the entrance. I worked in a store on the outskirts of a larger city, not a place tourists would really frequent unless they were visiting a local, or chose to rent a car and drive around and randomly stumbled upon the place. It wasn’t often we had duty free shoppers, I had 2 in 10 years. We would just fill out a form, give it to them, then they could get the dues refunded at their departure port, pretty simple.

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