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As announced in the autumn Budget 2024, the alcohol duty stamp scheme ends on 1 May 2025. It was introduced as an anti-fraud measure in 2006, but has since become a diminishing part of HMRC’s compliance response.
From 1 May, businesses will no longer need to register, obtain, or apply alcohol duty stamps to retail containers previously covered by the scheme. Registrations and authorisations under the scheme will automatically end.
Businesses will also no longer need to follow the scheme’s rules for removing stamps, or for keeping new records related to stamps. However, they must keep existing records for retail containers stamped before the scheme’s end for at least three years from the date the record was made.
At this stage, the scheme is not being replaced by any new requirement for on-pack markings, although HMRC continues to monitor the need for any supply-chain anti-fraud measures.
