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Who can get the relief, when to check your eligibility and how to work out your discounted duty rates.
Use the laboratory alcohol table to get the percentage of alcohol by volume on your product.
Find the full rates of duty and calculation examples that apply if you make, import or hold beer, cider, spirits, wine or other fermented products.
Review of typical alcohol by volume (ABV) levels in beer, cider and wine purchased for the ‘in-home’ market.
Check the rates of duty for beer, cider, spirits, wine and other fermented products.
Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
Government Chemist has drafted an opinion in answer to a query raised by a public analyst on a disagreement about correct tolerances on declared alcohol content
Find out about the simplified rates of customs and excise duty used when you declare your personal goods online.
More people could be encouraged to purchase alcohol-free drinks under government proposals to make alternatives to alcoholic drinks more widely available.
Find out about Alcoholic Ingredients Relief, which is the repayment of excise duty charged on spirits, beer, wine, other fermented products and cider.
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