Finance (No. 2) Act 1997

Tobacco products dutyU.K.

12 Rates of tobacco products 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—

TABLE

1. Cigarettes...An amount equal to 21 per cent. of the retail price plus £72.06 per thousand cigarettes.
2. Cigars...£105.86 per kilogram.
3. Hand-rolling tobacco...£87.74 per kilogram.
4. Other smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco...£46.55 per kilogram.

(2)This section shall come into force on 1st December 1997.

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