# Finance Act 2003, Section 1: Rates of tobacco products duty


(1) For the Table of rates of duty in Schedule 1 to the Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 (c. 7) substitute—
“
Table
1. Cigarettes
An amount equal to 22 per cent of the retail price plus £96.88 per thousand cigarettes.
2. Cigars
£141.10 per kilogram.
3. Hand-rolling tobacco
£101.42 per kilogram.
4. Other smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco
£62.03 per kilogram.
”
(2) This section shall be deemed to have come into force at 6 o'clock in the evening of 9th April 2003.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/14/section/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2003/section-1
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