Corporate report

Tackling alcohol smuggling: outputs

A report on the outputs of HMRC's alcohol strategy covering alcohol seizures, criminal enforcement and the Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Published: 10 June 2021
• Last updated: 30 September 2026
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  1. 30 September 2026

     Page updated to include 2026 figures.

  2. 24 September 2025

     Figures updated for 2025.

  3. 26 September 2024

     Updated to include data from April 2023 to April 2024.

  4. 16 May 2024

     Updated to include data for tax year 2022 to 2023.

  5. 6 February 2023

     Updated with data for tax year 2021 to 2022.

  6. 19 October 2021

     Updated to reflect figures up to April 2021.

  7. 10 June 2021

     First published.

Documents

Tackling alcohol smuggling: outputs — April 2020 to March 2026

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Tackling alcohol fraud is an HMRC priority, as set out in the HMRC Alcohol Strategy.

Our aims for alcohol, working with other enforcement agencies and the alcohol industry, are to:

• promote good compliance — making it easier for businesses to pay the right duties
• prevent tax losses — making it harder to make mistakes or to deliberately cheat, including addressing regime vulnerabilities, and exploring technology solutions to prevent fraud
• respond to those who cheat — increasing the impact of enforcement

Previous versions of this report

You can view previous versions on The National Archives website:

• Tackling alcohol smuggling: outputs — April 2019 to April 2025
• Tackling alcohol smuggling: outputs — April 2018 to April 2024
• Tackling alcohol smuggling: outputs — April 2017 to April 2023
• Tackling alcohol smuggling: outputs — April 2016 to April 2022
• see reports for previous years (click on year and date on the ‘Timeline’ page).