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What to do if your goods are lost, destroyed or stolen under an ATA Carnet.

• Updated: 20 October 2019

What you can do if your goods or vehicle are seized by Border Force or HM Revenue and Customs - get your things back or disagree with a customs seizure

• Overview

  Customs will destroy or sell anything it seizes from you for breaking the…

• Ask for your things back

  You can ask for your things back (make a ‘restoration request’) even if…

• Ask for a court hearing

  Send a ‘notice of claim’ if you think it was illegal for customs to seize…

How to record and report ozone-depleting substances (ODS) you import, export, sell or destroy in Great Britain.

• Updated: 14 November 2022

Form ST3: Statement of truth in support of an application for registration of land based upon lost or destroyed deeds.

Find out about temporary changes to the destruction of spoilt beer, cider, wine or made-wine if you're a brewer, cider producer, wine maker or publican.

• Updated: 14 July 2020

How you should account for VAT on goods that are lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed.

• Updated: 6 June 2009

Find out if you can claim a Soft Drinks Industry Levy credit for lost or destroyed drinks, and what evidence you need to get and keep.

• Updated: 18 April 2018

• Updated: 19 November 2024

The RAF are continuing to take the fight to Daesh in Iraq and Syria.

• Updated: 3 November 2025

This service provides a Certificate of Destruction (CoD) and Notification of Destruction (NoD) for an authorised treatment facility (ATF).

• Updated: 24 January 2024