Finance Act 1996

9 Rates of duty.U.K.

(1)For the Table of rates of duty in Schedule 1 to the M1Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 there shall be substituted—

1. CigarettesAn amount equal to 20 per cent. of the retail price plus £62.52 per thousand cigarettes.
2. Cigars£91.52 per kilogram.
3. Hand-rolling tobacco£85.94 per kilogram.
4. Other smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco£40.24 per kilogram.

(2)This section shall be deemed to have come into force at 6 o’clock in the evening of 28th November 1995.

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