TPD19260 - Advice for Officers dealing with imported tobacco products: Tobacco products required to carry the fiscal mark
Fiscal marking applies to specified tobacco products.
Specified tobacco products that are intended for, or are removed to, home-use are required to carry the fiscal mark. (See regulation 22 of the “Tobacco Products Regulations 2001�.)
Specified tobacco products are:
- cigarettes; and
- hand-rolling tobacco.
Please note that hand-rolling tobacco, which is intended for retail sale in loose form and is supplied by the manufacturer or importer in packets containing 500 grams or more, is not a specified tobacco product and is not required to carry a fiscal mark. (See regulation 21 of the “Tobacco Products Regulations 2001�.)
Specified tobacco products, which are removed or imported for a duty-free purpose, are not required to carry a fiscal mark and must not carry a fiscal mark. (See regulation 24 of the “Tobacco Products Regulations 2001�.)
Cigars, other smoking (pipe) tobacco, chewing tobacco and tobacco for heating are “non-specified tobacco productsâ€� and are currently excluded from the fiscal marking requirements. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýappy are, therefore, outside the scope of the marking scheme and none of the legislation concerning fiscal marks applies to these products.