After the war he worked as a customs and excise officer, settling in Gourock, Inverclyde.
The former Manx customs and excise vessel was handed over to the Sierra Leone government last October.
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Among its members are Customs and Excise representatives, the police, the NIO, Home Office and the Inland Revenue.
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The operation involved police, Customs and Excise officials and enforcement staff from the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA).
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Both the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise are also keen to get out of the business of managing property.
Customs and Excise would be out of pocket, with little or no chance of recovering the VAT to match the refund.
Reacting to Mr Chidambaram's budget, Mr Singh described it as "anti-inflationary", voicing hopes that proposed reductions in customs and excise duties would reduce higher prices.
Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise told to be "very sympathetic" to rural businesses in trouble, possibly allowing deferment of payments of taxes and national insurance.
Rationalisation is a popular strategy at the moment: in addition to merging the various inspection bodies, the government has plans to weld the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise into a single entity.
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"Clearly there are some worrying trends, such as the fact that Customs and Excise have now investigated 101 cases this year and it was only one case three years ago, " he told BBC News Online.
After the war and marriage to his beloved Daphne, he worked as a customs and excise officer in Glasgow, Prestwick, and Ireland before settling in Gourock, where his two daughters, Louise and Elaine, were brought up.
To help them, Mr Vajpayee has offered to cut the excise and customs duties on information-technology-related equipment to close to zero.
However at the same meeting Mike Norgrove, the director of excise at Revenue and Customs, said his staff were being successful in disrupting smugglers and those laundering fuel.
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