Budget
22 March 2006
Further details of how the Government is reinforcing its strategy to tackle tobacco smuggling are set out in a document ‘New responses to new challenges - Reinforcing the Tackling Tobacco Smuggling Strategy’, published today. Tobacco smuggling undermines the Government’s objective to reduce smoking and denies the Exchequer revenue to fund public services. Since the launch of the Tackling Tobacco Smuggling Strategy in 2000, the illicit market share has been reduced from 21 per cent to about 16 per cent in 2003/04 , protecting £6bn in revenue. The strategy is being reinforced to clamp down further on smuggling, and to tackle the persistent smuggling of hand-rolling tobacco and the growing threat from counterfeit. New measures include:
"New responses to new challenges: Reinforcing the Tackling Tobacco Smuggling Strategy" is available below in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website . For alternative ways to read PDF documents and further information on website accessibility visit the HM Treasury accessibility page .
