Call for booze tax dodge crackdown

Customs officials have been criticised for failing to crack down on criminal gangs who dodge alcohol tax at an estimated cost to the Treasury of more than £1 billion.

MPs claimed HM Revenue and Customs appeared to be reluctant to prosecute offenders after they found just 20 successful cases had been brought over the four years to 2009/10.
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