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22 decisions turning on excise duty.
The appellant, Mr Andrew Burridge, arrived at Terminal 2 of Manchester Airport on 15 April 2024 on a flight from Banjul, Gambia, having travelled there on a visit organised by his local church to deliver electrical kitchen goods…
The appellant, Mr John Robert Pascual, lived in Gateshead and had formerly worked on a North Sea oil platform on a high salary until an accident left him unemployable in that industry, though he retained substantial savings and…
The appellant, Jerzy Wesolowski, traded as "Uslugi Transportowe", a Polish transport business. On 3 April 2017 Border Force officers stopped a 7.5 tonne lorry owned by the appellant at Dover Eastern Docks, driven by his employee…
The appellant, Truebell plc, is an importer and distributor of household goods in the United Kingdom, including compact fluorescent lamps ("CFLs") sourced from Ecopak in Pakistan. Following a complaint by the European Lighting…
Dransfield Novelty Company Limited supplied electronic lottery terminals to small non-profit members' clubs, societies and miners' welfare institutes. Each machine held virtual stacks of lottery tickets pre-ordered at random…
Aspinalls Club Limited holds gaming licences to operate casinos in the United Kingdom. Since September 2007, following the removal of restrictions by the Gambling Act 2005, it has run Premium Player Programmes designed to…
The appellant, Mrs Margaret Williams, was the registered owner of a Mercedes Benz E220 which was stopped by officers of the Director of Border Revenue at Dover Eastern Docks on 8 May 2010. Her husband, Mr Gareth Williams, was…
The appellant, Global Foods Limited, traded from South Wales as a wholesaler of food and drink to small supermarkets. It had traded since 1988, employed 90 staff, operated a 60,000 square foot warehouse and had an annual turnover…
Glen Bennett travelled with two companions, Andrew Eades and Hector Walters, from their homes in Sheffield to Dover, took a ferry to France and then went on to Adinkerke in Belgium to buy tobacco goods, returning through Calais…
The appellant, Dynamic Construction Ltd, appealed against a review decision of the Commissioners dated 8 August 2005 offering restoration of a Ford Transit van, registration R636 OAD, on payment of a fee of £1,150. On 16 May 2005…
On 5 December 2003 Karen Bennett and her travelling companion, Richard Grimes, arrived at Dover on a ferry from France, and Customs officers seized 24.95 kg of hand rolling tobacco, 400 cigarettes and Mrs Bennett's car, which was…
The appellant traded as The Vintry, the trading name of The Vintry Wine Company Limited, a small UK wine merchant with a turnover at the relevant time of about £500,000 a year, which produced a loss in 2004 and a small profit in…
The appellant, Konstantin Darscht, was an owner-driver of a tractor unit and trailer who worked for a company called Seifert Logistics. On 4 July 2005 he collected loads at Schalchen in Austria, Ulm and Oberkirch, loading pallets…
The appellant, Ian Walton Dalziel, was stopped by H M Customs and Excise at Newcastle Airport on 26 August 2004 as he returned by air from Spain, and 7,000 cigarettes were seized from him on the footing that they were being…
The appellant, Perthshire Fine Wines Ltd, applied to the Commissioners for approval of premises at 202 High Street, Auchterarder, Perthshire as a trade facility warehouse, which would permit goods to be held there in duty…
Continental Wine and Food Limited manufactured "Bali Tropical Alcoholic Drink with Caribbean Rum & Coconut flavour", a beverage made by fortifying a fermented made-wine base derived from concentrated grape juice with neutral…
The appellants were James Ashley Gibbons ("JG") and his son Richard Lee Gibbons ("LG"), both self-employed lorry and truck drivers working in and near Newport, Wales, who lived at the family home and ran their businesses…
Mr Alan Fagg, a disabled Plymouth resident living on benefits and a heavy smoker, took advantage of a newspaper offer of cheap day-trips by ferry from Plymouth to Santander in Spain, making five such journeys in early 2005. On 13…
Mr Alan Griffiths and his wife, Mrs Veronica Jean Griffiths, returned to the United Kingdom from Spain on 2 March 2004 bringing with them 14,620 cigarettes and 2 kilos of hand rolling tobacco. As travellers between European Union…
The appellant, Cheryll Scott, was stopped by Customs Officers at the UK Control Zone at Coquelles, France, on 16 June 2005 while driving her Vauxhall Vectra with three passengers, Mrs Gunn, Mrs Johnson and Mr Marriott, all…
Euroworld Distribution Services, a business set up by Ali (Jaffery) Maleek in March 2003, initially imported soft drinks from Egypt before deciding to move into the import of beer and spirits, obtaining the appropriate…
Mr K A Frazer appealed against a decision of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, communicated on review by letter of 13 February 2002, refusing to restore to him a Renault Laguna car seized on 25 November 2001. At about 1.25…