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Though Revenue can trace itself back to predecessors (with the Act of Union 1800 amalgamating its forerunners with HM Customs and Excise in the United Kingdom), the current organisation was created for the independent Irish Free State on 21 February 1923 by the Revenue Commissioners Order 1923 [1] which established the Revenue Commissioners to ...
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; Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department; Directorate General of Customs and Excise (Indonesia) In Ghana, the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service; In Singapore ...
The Inland Revenue was merged with HM Customs and Excise to form HM Revenue and Customs which came into existence on 18 April 2005. [2] The current name was promoted by the use of the expression "from Revenue and Customs" in a series of annual radio, and to a lesser extent, television public information broadcasts in the 2000s and 2010s.
The United States Customs Service was a federal law enforcement agency of the U.S. federal government.Established on July 31, 1789, it collected import tariffs, performed other selected border security duties, as well as conducted criminal investigations.
A customs officer in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol checks the luggage of an incoming traveler. Vienna Convention road sign for customs. Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country.
His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (commonly HM Revenue and Customs, or HMRC) [4] [5] is a non-ministerial department of the UK Government responsible for the collection of taxes, the payment of some forms of state support, the administration of other regulatory regimes including the national minimum wage and the issuance of national insurance numbers.
On 18 April 2005, Customs and Excise was merged once more with the Inland Revenue to form a new department, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The enormous contrast between the powers of officers of the Inland Revenue, and those of Customs and Excise, initially caused several difficulties in the early life of the new organisation.
The Customs & Central Excise department was established in the year 1855 by the then British Governor General of India, to administer customs laws in India and collection of import duties/land revenue. It is one of the oldest government departments in India.