HC Deb 11 April 1927 vol 205 c128

Resolved,

"That in lieu of the Excise duties now chargeable on tobacco grown in great Britian or Northern Ireland there shall on and after the twelfth day April, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, be charged the following duties, that is to say:—

s. d.
Upon tobacco unmanufactured, namely:—
Tobacco containing 10 lbs. or more of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof the pound 6
Tobacco containing less than 10 lbs. of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof the pound 7 4⅜
Upon tobacco manufactured, namely:—
Cavendish or Negrohead, manufactured in bond the pound 8 7⅜
and so 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."