Policy papers and consultations

HM Revenue and Customs and Border Force's refreshed strategy to tackle illicit tobacco.

• From: Border Force and 1 others
• Updated: 1 March 2024

• Stubbing out the problem: A new strategy to tackle illicit tobacco

  Ministerial foreword Smoking is a leading cause of preventable death and…

This tax information and impact note sets out how tobacco duties will increase on 22 November 2023.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 22 November 2023

• Increases to tobacco duty rates from 22 November 2023

  Who is likely to be affected Manufacturers, importers, distributors,…

This tax information and impact note is about new powers that HMRC have to tackle tobacco duty evasion.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 12 June 2023

• New sanctions to tackle illicit tobacco duty evasion

  Who is likely to be affected Individuals and businesses involved in the…

This tax information and impact note sets out how tobacco duties will increase on 15 March 2023.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 15 March 2023

This tax information and impact note is about changes to the movements of excise duty paid goods from 13 February 2023.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 1 February 2023

This tax information and impact note is about changes to simplify moving goods from Great Britain or the Isle of Man to Northern Ireland from 1 April 2022.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs and 1 others
• Updated: 17 March 2022

This tax information and impact note sets out how tobacco duties will increase on 27 October 2021.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 27 October 2021

This Tax Information and Impact Note is about changes to Tobacco Track and Trace procedures, following the UK transition period.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 22 October 2021

This measure introduces tougher more effective sanctions to tackle the sale of illicit tobacco.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 20 July 2021

We welcome views on proposed sanctions to tackle tobacco duty evasion and extending HMRC traceability enforcement powers to Trading Standards officers.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 20 July 2021

This tax information and impact note is about the consolidation of the duty rates contained in The Tobacco Products Duty (Alteration of Rates) Order 2020 into Finance Bill 2021.  

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 3 March 2021

This tax information and impact note is about the increase in the duty rate on all tobacco products.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 12 November 2020

This Tax Information and Impact Note is about the increase in tobacco duty rates from 11 March 2020.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 11 March 2020

We would like your views on the draft secondary legislation to implement track and trace and security features for tobacco products in the UK as required by the Tobacco Products Directive.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 27 June 2019

We are inviting views on the draft legislation for the excise duty tax category definition - tobacco for heating - that will come into force on 1 July 2019.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 23 May 2019

This measure deals with Tobacco Duty on heated tobacco products.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 1 November 2018

This tax information and impact note deals with tobacco duty rates announced at Autumn Budget 2017.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 22 November 2017

This tax information and impact note deals with the Minimum Excise Tax announced at Autumn Budget 2017.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 22 November 2017

This tax information and impact note deals with the Minimum Excise Tax (MET) for cigarettes.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 8 March 2017

This tax information and impact note is about the new Raw Tobacco Approval Scheme.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 14 December 2016