Customs and Excisenoun [ + sing/pl verb ]
uk/ˌkʌs.təmz ənd ˈek.saɪz/us/ˌkʌs.təmz ənd ˈek.saɪz/the former name for the UK government department that collects taxes, especially on goods leaving or entering the country
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UK politics: government departments & organizations
- agency
- bureau
- Downing Street
- executive
- FCO
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- interior
- lobby
- lower house
- MI5
- MI6
- ministry
- mod
- quango
- secret service
- secretariat
- State Department
- the CSA
- the diplomatic service
- the Treasury
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- For it was clear that in spite of all that had been done by the Customs and Excise, by the Admiralty and the military, they had not succeeded in obtaining the desired effect.
- In every federal system in the world the control of Customs and Excise has been retained by the central authority.
- In practice, nearly the whole Federal tax revenue is derived from Customs and Excise.
- There the Commonwealth, besides having exclusive control of Customs and Excise, has general powers of taxation concurrently with the States, though in practice Commonwealth taxation is almost entirely confined to Customs and Excise.
- To retain Imperial control of Customs and Excise, while crediting the Irish proceeds to Ireland, is in itself equivalent to making three-quarters of Irish tax revenue take the form of an annual money grant fixed by Great Britain.