Part 1Direct and indirect taxes

Indirect taxes

22Tobacco products duty: rates

1

TPDA 1979 is amended as follows.

2

For the table in Schedule 1 substitute—

TABLE

1. Cigarettes

An amount equal to 16.5% of the retail price plus £207.99 per thousand cigarettes.

2. Cigars

£259.44 per kilogram

3. Hand-rolling tobacco

£209.77 per kilogram

4. Other smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco

£114.06 per kilogram

3

The amendment made by this section is treated as having come into force at 6pm on 8 March 2017.