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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 3 June 2009 - onwards

16. Rates of tobacco products tax.

The Finance Act 2005 is amended with effect as on and from 8 April 2009 by substituting the following for Schedule 2 to that Act (as amended by section 52 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 2008):

"Schedule 2 Rates of Tobacco Products Tax

(With effect as on and from 8 April 2009)

Description of Product

Rate of Tax

Cigarettes.........................................

€183.42 per thousand together with an amount equal to 18.25 per cent of the price at which the cigarettes are sold by retail

Cigars................................................

€261.066 per kilogram

Fine-cut tobacco for the rolling of cigarettes

€220.301 per kilogram

Other smoking tobacco..........................

€181.117 per kilogram

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