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Small Producer Relief calculator

Work out your Alcohol Duty rate with Small Producer Relief (SPR) for one product. Free, no sign-up, and nothing you enter is saved.

To 1 decimal place, rounded down (7.59 counts as 7.5), e.g. 5.5
Volume of finished product. Leave as 100 to see a rate per 100 litres.
Usually last production year's total (1 February to 31 January), across all your products.
Leave empty for today. The rates depend on this date.

About Small Producer Relief

SPR lowers the Alcohol Duty rate on drinks under 8.5% ABV for producers who make less than 4,500 hectolitres of pure alcohol a year. The discount depends on your annual production and comes from lookup tables that HMRC publishes on GOV.UK.

Working out your annual figure: for each product, litres × ABV ÷ 100 gives litres of pure alcohol. Add them up for the production year (1 February to 31 January) and divide by 100 for hectolitres. For example, 10,000 litres of 6% cider is 600 litres, or 6 hectolitres, of pure alcohol.

Read more: how to work out Small Producer Relief, step by step, which figure to use in your first year, how Draught Relief combines with SPR and which category your cider, fruit cider or mead falls in.

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This calculator helps you check your figures. It is not tax advice. Check the rates on GOV.UK and your own records before you submit your return.