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the Inland Revenue

noun [+ sing/pl verb]
 
 

Definition

the former name for the government office in the UK that collects the main taxesTaxationGovernment departments and organizations
(Definition of the Inland Revenue noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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