PART ICustoms and Excise and Value Added Tax

CHAPTER ICustoms and Excise

The rates of duty

1Tobacco products

1

For the Table in Schedule 1 to the [1979 c. 7.] Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 there shall be substituted—

TABLE

1. Cigarettes

An amount equal to 21 per cent, of the retail price plus £30.61 per thousand cigarettes.

2. Cigars

£47.05 per kilogram.

3. Hand-rolling tobacco

£49.64 per kilogram.

4. Other smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco

£24.95 per kilogram."

2

This section shall be deemed to have come into force on 21st March 1986.