Part I Excise duties

Tobacco products duty

12 Rates of tobacco products duty.

1

For the Table of rates of duty in Schedule 1 to the M1Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 substitute—

TABLE

1. Cigarettes

An amount equal to 22 per cent. of the retail price plus £90.43 per thousand cigarettes.

2. Cigars

£132.33 per kilogram.

3. Hand-rolling tobacco

£95.12 per kilogram.

4. Other smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco

£58.17 per kilogram.

2

This section shall be deemed to have come into force at 6 o’clock in the evening of 21st March 2000.