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Excise Notice 477: tobacco products duty - duty not to facilitate smuggling

This notice explains the duty placed upon tobacco manufacturers to avoid facilitating smuggling.

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This notice gives guidance on how to comply with the law and explains the obligations on tobacco manufacturers to make sure that cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco manufactured by them, or on their behalf, do not evade UK excise duty.

Published 14 February 2014
Last updated 4 July 2019 + show all updates
  1. Section 9 has been updated following legislation changes on 1 July 2019 for heated tobacco.

  2. Excise Notice 477 has been updated to help clarify the legal duty of tobacco manufacturers to avoid facilitating smuggling.

  3. This notice has been updated with best practices to help comply with the legal duty to avoid facilitating smuggling under the Tobacco Products Duty Act.

  4. First published.