Catalogue description HM Customs and Excise and predecessors: Railway passenger duty

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Details of CUST 150
Reference: CUST 150
Title: HM Customs and Excise and predecessors: Railway passenger duty
Description:

Records concerning railway passenger duty policy and liability.

Date: 1820-1929
Related material:

Boarding stations Subseries within CUST 49

Exemptions from duty for railway passengers Subsubseries within CUST 119

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Customs and Excise, Secretaries' Office, 1909-

Board of Stamps and Taxes, 1834-1849

Physical description: 8 bundles and papers
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

2004-2005 Board of Customs and Excise

Selection and destruction information: Material covers dates not covered by railway passenger duty in other CUST classes. Relates to section 2.2.2.1 of the National Archives accession policy: how the state interacted with the railway business community and policy and adminstrative processes.
Accruals: No further accruals are expected
Administrative / biographical background:

A permanent Board of Excise was established in 1683. In 1849 it was merged with the Board of Stamps and Taxes, who had managed railway passenger duty up to 1847, to form the Board of Inland Revenue. In 1909, the management of excise duties was merged with those of Customs under the Board of Customs and Excise. The Secretaries' Office was the administrative and executive organisation through which the Board of Customs and Excise discharged its functions.

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