Part I Customs and Excise and Value Added Tax

chapter I Customs and Excise

Rates of duty

2 Tobacco products.

(1)

For the Table 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 £34.91 per thousand cigarettes.

2. Cigars

£53.67 per kilogram.

3. Hand-rolling tobacco

£56.63 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 23rd March 1990.