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How much duty will I owe on this?
How the charge is worked out — on litres of pure alcohol, so strength matters more than volume. You supply the current rate: CiderHQ does not publish one, because a rate hard-coded here would be quietly wrong within a year.
Duty on a batch
CiderHQ does not publish a rate. Take the current figure from HMRC and enter it here — a rate hard-coded into a web page goes stale silently.
Duty payable
0.00
This is an estimate from a model, not a measurement.
How this is worked out
- Litres of pure alcohol: 1000.0 L × 5.5% ÷ 100 = 55.000 LPA
- Duty: 55.000 LPA × 0.00 = 0.00
What this assumes (3)
- CiderHQ does not publish duty rates. Rates change at fiscal events, and a stale figure repeated confidently is worse than no figure at all — take the current rate from HMRC and enter it above.
- This is the headline charge only. Small producer relief, draught relief, strength bands and the separate treatment of products above the cider threshold all change what is actually payable.
- Above a certain strength a product ceases to be cider for duty purposes and is charged as wine or as another category. Check which band applies before relying on this.
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Where this reading comes from
Guides that reach this calculator, and what the number decides once you have it.