HC Deb 30 April 1919 vol 115 c243

Resolved, 5. That in addition to the duty of Excise now payable for every gallon computed at proof of spirits distilled in the United Kingdom there shall, on and after the first day of May, nineteen hundred and nineteen, be charged the following duty (that is to say):—

£ s. d.
For every gallon of spirits computed at proof 1 0 0

and so on in proportion for any less quantity. And it is declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution shall have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913.