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Customs and Excise

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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
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