Businesses continually focus on reducing costs and improving margin.  Finance Departments are likely to have looked time and again at general tax planning and cost cutting strategies.  The opportunities for customs reclaims are often fresh and likely to yield some easy wins.  Our 60 Second Guide to Customs duty reclaims gives you a quick take on the process for recovering customs duties and tips on how to succeed with any applications.

We are continually looking at ways of improving our website and have added an archive of previous newsletters packed with explanations of customs developments and articles on reducing customs costs and managing customs compliance risks.  We hope you will find this a useful resource.

Finally, I draw your attention to our article on Customs Notices are not Customs law.  A recent tribunal decision has commented on HMRC's tendency to gold plate some customs regulations and how it pays to strip issues back to the actual terms of the regulations.