Finance (No. 2) Act 2008

Rates of tobacco products tax.

52.— The Finance Act 2005 is amended with effect as on and from 15 October 2008 by substituting the following for Schedule 2 to that Act (as amended by section 74 of the Finance Act 2008 ):

“SCHEDULE 2

Rates of Tobacco Products Tax

(With effect as on and from 15 October 2008)

Description of Product

Rate of Tax

Cigarettes

€175.30 per thousand together with an amount equal to 18.28 per cent of the price at which the cigarettes are sold by retail

Cigars

€250.729 per kilogram

Fine-cut tobacco for the rolling of cigarettes

€211.578 per kilogram

Other smoking tobacco

€173.946 per kilogram

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