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Get access to the Vaping Products Duty online service

Enrol for the Manage your Vaping Products Duty online service if you’re an approved vaping products manufacturer.

Use the Manage your Vaping Products Duty online service to submit monthly Vaping Products Duty returns and payments.

You must be an approved manufacturer of vaping products to enrol. If you’re not already an approved manufacturer, find out how to apply for approval from HMRC.

When you should enrol

As soon as you get your vaping products approval ID, you should enrol onto the Manage your Vaping Products Duty online service.

What you’ll need

You’ll need your 13-digit vaping products approval ID. The vaping products approval ID is made up of 13 characters (for example, GBWK1234567WK).

You will also need one of the following:

  • your business postcode
  • your Corporation Tax Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR)
  • your Self Assessment Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR)

Get help to find your UTR.

How to find your vaping products approval ID

If you have already applied for approval to become a UK vaping product manufacturer, you can find your vaping products approval ID in the approval letter that we sent to you.

Enrol online

To enrol in this service you’ll need an organisation account administrator Government Gateway user ID and password. You will not be able to use a personal Government Gateway user ID to enrol.

Start now

Online services may be slow during busy times. Check if there are any problems with this service.

After you’ve enrolled

You must submit monthly returns and payments using the service.

You’ll need to submit a nil return even if you have not manufactured any vaping products in a month.

The first return will be due on the 7 November 2026.

Issues enrolling

If you’ve signed in to your business tax account and cannot enrol onto the Manage your Vaping Products Duty service, use the link ‘is this page not working properly?’ for support.

If you cannot access your business tax account, use the support links within Government Gateway for help.

Updates to this page

Published 1 April 2026

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