Tax Stamp News is brought to you by Reconnaissance International, a leading source of business intelligence for authentication, security printing and holography and publishers of four other industry newsletters - Authentication News, Holography News, Currency News and Pharma AntiCounterfeiting News. Tax Stamp News is brought to you by Reconnaissance International, a leading source of business intelligence for authentication, security printing and holography and publishers of four other industry newsletters - Authentication News, Holography News, Currency News and Pharma AntiCounterfeiting News. We also organize several conferences each year, including the High Security Printing Conferences in Asia and Eastern Europe, Optical Document Security, the Global Forum on Pharmaceutical AntiCounterfeiting, the holographic industry annual conference Holo-pack.Holo-print, the Authentication Connections Forum and, most recently, the first Tax Stamp Forum. In addition, we publish sector-specific directories and reports, the latest of which include Tax Stamps: a Technical Study and Market Report and the Authentication Connections Directory. Tax Stamp News, which is subscription-based, will be published bi-monthly in hard copy and as a pdf. It is supported by a web portal through which subscribers can access their electronic copy and which will, in addition, provide regular updates between issues on policy and regulatory initiatives, counterfeit/contraband seizures and statistics and new programmes. The portal will also feature supplementary information on tenders, technologies, statistics and market projections, providing a unique one-stop resource with crucial information and analysis for all those involved in the tax stamp arena. Details of how to subscribe can be found in the order form accompanying this first issue, as well as at the portal – www.taxstampforum.com . Further information about Reconnaissance International and our other products and services can be found at www.reconnaissance-intl.com. Alternatively, phone or email us (contact details on the back page).