Introduction Background Note
31.The measure will amend the law to clarify that surplus stores can remain on board a ship or aircraft without payment of duty and make provision for the introduction of procedures to account for duty retrospectively on stores consumed in port or on an intra-UK flight and impose penalties for failing to do so. It will also make provision to allow the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to make regulations for an authorisation procedure to control goods moving from warehouses to be shipped as stores, in order to address an area of revenue risk, and to specify the circumstances in which goods can be shipped or carried as stores without payment of duty. These circumstances will include the journeys on which stores can be shipped or carried without payment of duty. The measure also imposes a penalty for contravening any provision, or condition or restriction, imposed by or under the regulations.