Tobacco: Excise Duties
Commons · Question 8778 · Tabled 14 Oct 2024 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Andrew Rosindell
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help tackle tobacco duty avoidance.
Answer
Answered by James Murray, 17 Oct 2024
The new joint HMRC and Border Force strategy to tackle illicit tobacco was published earlier this year, ‘Stubbing out the problem’. The strategy:targets the demand for illicit trade (the consumers that criminals seek to exploit) as well as the supply (the...