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Find out about the verification checks and what to expect during a visit if you've applied for verification and paid your fee for the Scheme.
Find out how you can sell duty-free or duty-paid alcohol and tobacco products through airlines, on ships, in export stores and in duty-free shops.
Find out how to change your details, leave the scheme or transfer production facilities to another producer.
Use the laboratory alcohol table to get the percentage of alcohol by volume on your product.
Find out about risks of excise duty evasion and other commercial risks if you're an excise warehousekeeper or registered consignor.
Learn more about the support available for Alcohol Duty.
This notice must be displayed at every entrance and exit of an excise premises, warning against improper removal of duty-suspended goods.
Check which ingredients to use to make cider or perry that qualifies for Cider Duty rates. If you use other ingredients, you must pay Wine Duty rates instead.
Find out who can be authorised to store, process or produce excise goods in a UK Freeport customs site and how to apply to do so.
This notice explains HMRC's policy on aircraft, ship and train stores following the Excise Goods (Aircraft and Ship's Stores) Regulation 2015.
Use the form HM2 to submit your return of excise duty as a registered consignee or certified consignee.
Check the availability and any issues affecting the Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme (AWRS).
Find out about the procedures and conditions for remission of excise duty.
Use form HM1 to apply to be a part of the Registered Consignee scheme and import duty-suspending goods into Northern Ireland from an EU member state.
Find out about temporary changes to the destruction of spoilt beer, cider, wine or made-wine if you're a brewer, cider producer, wine maker or publican.
Find out how to work out your annual alcohol production if you’re part of a group, or you merge with, or separate from another business.
Notification to excise warehousekeepers and warehouse users of changes to conditions under section 92 Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, and section 15 Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979.
How to apply for temporary approval if your approval has been rejected or revoked in one of the application schemes.
Use form HM8 when you need authority to account for excise duty by using another trader's deferment approval number (DAN).
Find out if you can use the Excise Payment Security System when paying the duty due on excise goods released for consumption in the UK.
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