UK Tobacco Duties Bulletin: Monthly Clearances and Receipts

HM Revenue and Customs publishes the Tobacco Duties Statistical Bulletin. It provides monthly statistics on clearances of cigarettes and tobacco products alongside duty receipts for the UK. The dataset is designated as National Statistics and was last updated on 2026-06-18.

Use Cases

• Modeling tobacco tax revenue based on monthly clearance volumes mentioned in the description
• Analyzing seasonal trends in tobacco product consumption based on monthly statistics
• Forecasting government duty receipts based on historical clearance and receipt data

Strengths

• Data is designated as National Statistics, indicating a formal quality assurance process.
• Provides monthly granularity for tracking trends over time.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

HM Revenue and Customs

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-18 09:16:27.404792; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom