Guidance

Withdraw your application for the Vaping Products Duty or the Vaping Duty Stamps Scheme

Tell HMRC you want to withdraw your Vaping Products Duty or Vaping Duty Stamps Scheme application.

About this form

You need to tell HMRC if you want to withdraw your Vaping Products Duty or Vaping Duty Stamps Scheme approval application.

You cannot withdraw your application if we have already approved it.

What you will need

We will ask you for the: 

  • type of application that you included in the submission
  • submission reference from your original application
  • reason for withdrawing the application

Where you can find your submission reference

This is a 12-character code we sent when you submitted the application. For example, ZKF7-D67V-E0QY.

You can find this in the email we sent you after you applied for approval.

Withdraw your application

Online

To withdraw your application, you need to sign in with your Government Gateway user ID and password.

You can save your progress and come back later.

You’ll get a confirmation email with a submission reference once you have sent the form.

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If you cannot use the online form

You can tell us you want to withdraw your application by post if you are not able to use the online form.

Contact us by writing to HMRC.

After you have sent the form

We aim to review the form within 45 working days.

It may take longer if we need to ask you for more information.

Updates to this page

Published 1 April 2026

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