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What (who) is customs and excise department - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Customs and Excise department; Customs and excise; Customs and Excise Department; Customs and Excise (disambiguation); Customs & Excise

Customs and Excise         
Customs and Excise is a British government department which is responsible for collecting taxes on imported and exported goods. Compare Customs Service
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N-PROPER
excise         
  • 1828 "Old Frizzle"
GOODS TAX LEVIED AT THE MOMENT OF MANUFACTURE RATHER THAN SALE
Excise tax; Excise Duties; Excise duty; Excise duties; General excise tax; Excise Tax; Excise taxes; Excises; Liquor tax; Tax in rem; Excise Duty; Commodity tax
(excised)
1.
Excise is a tax that the government of a country puts on particular goods, such as cigarettes and alcoholic drinks, which are produced for sale in its own country.
...this year's rise in excise duties...
New car buyers and smokers will be hit by increases in taxes and excise.
N-VAR: usu N n
2.
If someone excises something, they remove it deliberately and completely. (FORMAL)
...a personal crusade to excise racist and sexist references in newspapers.
...the question of permanently excising madness from the world.
VERB: V n, V n from n
excision (excisions)
The authors demanded excision of foreign words.
N-VAR
excise         
  • 1828 "Old Frizzle"
GOODS TAX LEVIED AT THE MOMENT OF MANUFACTURE RATHER THAN SALE
Excise tax; Excise Duties; Excise duty; Excise duties; General excise tax; Excise Tax; Excise taxes; Excises; Liquor tax; Tax in rem; Excise Duty; Commodity tax
n. a tax upon manufacture, sale or for a business license or charter, as distinguished from a tax on real property, income or estates. Sometimes it is redundantly called an excise tax.

Wikipedia

Customs and Excise

Customs and Excise refers to customs duty and excise duty.

In certain countries, the national tax authorities that are responsible for collecting those duties are named Customs and Excise, including:

  • HM Customs and Excise, a department of the British government until 2005
  • HM Revenue and Customs a department formed by the merger of HM Customs and Excise with Inland Revenue in 2005
  • Customs and Excise Department (Hong Kong)
  • Directorate General of Customs and Excise (Indonesia)
  • In Ghana, the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service
  • In Singapore, the defunct Customs and Excise Department, which was replaced by the Singapore Customs on 1 April 2003
Examples of use of customs and excise department
1. Hong Kong‘s Department of Health said the recall was being handled by the Customs and Excise Department.