Part I Excise Duties

Tobacco products duty

I18 Rates of tobacco products duty.

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 £65.97 per thousand cigarettes.

2. Cigars

£98.02 per kilogram.

3. Hand-rolling tobacco

£87.74 per kilogram.

4. Other smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco

£43.10 per kilogram.

2

This section shall be deemed to have come into force at 6 o’clock in the evening of 26th November 1996.