As sole residents, we had one of our oddest yet most enjoyable evenings here, drinking what felt like highly illicit, duty-free red wine while reading hellfire and damnation tracts to each other.
The U.S. Air Force has launched an investigation into illicit, off-duty drug use by troops who protect its nuclear weapons, senior service officials said Friday, the latest black eye for a nuclear force that has suffered several scandals in recent years.
On Sunday, the finance minister, Mathias Cormann, confirmed the plan to prevent the sale of 864 tonnes of illicit tobacco that escapes duties each year.
As any other sovereign state, China is duty-bound to tackle illicit and criminal activities according to its law.
In December another parliamentary group, the public accounts committee, noted that border police had given priority to passenger checks over other duties, including examining freight for illicit goods.
Such objects include stolen goods, property forfeited to the Government, property concealed to avoid payment of duties, counterfeit coins, burglar tools, gambling paraphernalia, illicit liquor and the like.
At that meeting, the United States recognized its duty as the world's biggest market for illicit drugs to cut demand and aid producing countries that reduce output, in addition to taking vigorous measures against traffickers and destroying supplies.
And what is the duty of a magazine receiving in the mail an illicit but very beautiful sonnet, say, from some sweet-voiced embezzler in a Jersey clink?
Officials at the two financial institutions are investigating the Swiss company's report to determine whether the customs system was corrupted at both ends -- from commissions paid to Bhutto family companies on the preshipment inspection contracts and, later, in illicit payments by Pakistani importers seeking to avoid the customs duties that the Swiss companies had determined they owed.
It added that the plan would boost the illicit trade in cigarettes, which already costs the Treasury £3bn in unpaid duty and VAT a year.
I had just been unceremoniously relieved of my duties at my local Urban Outfitters after having an illicit affair with one of the managers.
