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Customs news - Customs and Excise reorganisation

07 February 2001
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Customs and Excise reorganisation
Customs and Excise are reorganising their activities along functional lines. By 1 April 2001, all their activities will be organised into one of two core business units or in a defined support function for those units.
The core business units will be:
Customs news

Customs and Excise reorganisation
Customs and Excise are reorganising their activities along functional lines. By 1 April 2001, all their activities will be organised into one of two core business units or in a defined support function for those units.
The core business units will be:

– business services and taxes, comprising all business taxes, the facilitation and information services of Customs, international movements and trade services. It will have as its focus legitimate businesses and will have approximately 13,000 staff. Some services will be delivered regionally and some (such as services to large traders) will for the first time be managed centrally;
– law enforcement comprising all investigation, intelligence and detection activities of the department. It will have as its focus fraud or other regulatory breaches where business activity, if it exists, is incidental to the main purpose of the activity. It will have approximately 8,000 staff.
(Source: Customs press release 4/2001 dated 17 January 2001.)


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