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Inland Revenue

(in Britain and New Zealand) a government board that administers and collects major direct taxes, such as income tax, corporation tax, and capital gains tax
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An HMRC spokesman said: "A husband and wife have been arrested as part of an HM Revenue and Customs investigation into a suspected [euro]1.3million tax fraud.
He also faced one allegation of conspiracy to defraud and one of acting with intent to prejudice/defraud HM Revenue and Customs. Carol Miller, 56, of South Grange, Ryton, is accused of two counts of being concerned in the acquisition/retention or control of criminal property.
A HMRC spokesperson said: "HM Revenue and Customs officers seized a substantial haul of suspected illicit tobacco products after searching a trailer on Parliament Street in Middlesbrough on Sunday, August 6.
Representatives from Liverpool's trading standards, Merseyside Police, and British Gas joined HM Revenue and Customs for the raids.
The number of fraud cases in the region was 66, with the largest reported involving a gang that set up a factory in Derbyshire, capable of making up to 625 million counterfeit cigarettes and five million pouches of fake rolling tobacco a year, with a potential annual loss to HM Revenue and Customs of PS150 million.
The union has more than 50,000 members at HM Revenue and Customs.
The e-mail, purporting to be from HM Revenue and Customs, tells readers they have a tax rebate before directing them to a page on which they are encouraged to enter their bank details.
It found HM Revenue and Customs has been sinking under a backlog of almost 18 million "open cases" thought to containe mistakes from 2004.
All nine were based at an HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) contact centre in Belfast.
HM Revenue and Customs have lodged a petition with Stirling District Council, and a liquidator is due to be appointed early next month if the Second Division leaders can't pay the bill.
U.K HM Revenue and Customs has admitted that they have lost 2 computer discs containing confidential details of 15 million child benefit recipients, within the internal mail system.
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