A duty engine on effective-dated rates, W1 returns fed from live stock, real duty warrants pricing every home-use removal, and an operational EMCS movement lifecycle (submit to auto-close), with the live HMRC channel deliberately switched off until sandbox credentials verify it.
Get early accessEffective-dated duty rates by tax type, so a rate change at a Budget doesn’t mean an emergency deploy: the engine looks up the rate that applied on the date in question.
Generated per period from live movements and account-takings (Section B balances, Section C cross-referencing the warehouse’s own undischarged eADs by ARC, Section D owner starts/ceases), with mismatches flagged, never blocking, and an immutable snapshot you can download as XML. Submit, accept and reject are recorded here, not transmitted. There’s no electronic ATWD channel yet.
The distiller’s own filing: HMRC’s Manage-your-Alcohol-Duty return, generated per site and quarter from completed spirit runs (total LPA, of which Scotch and Irish). Only closed quarters can be filed, with data-quality warnings instead of silent miscounts, and a print view built for keying into MyAD by hand. There’s no submission API, so no XML.
Every removal to home use prices at the rate in force the day it left bond, never the filing date. Lines accrue onto one open draft per owner and warrant type; submitting locks the figures and renders the W5/W5D worksheet as a PDF, and a removal interlock refuses completion until every cask or lot is covered by an accepted or paid warrant, naming exactly what isn’t. Keeper-paid duty raises the owner’s recharge automatically, against an insert-only duty-rate table maintained in-product. Accepted and rejected stay manual record-keeping, and there’s no electronic ATWD channel yet.
The full eAD/ARC lifecycle, live on screen: submit for an ARC, dispatch against the statutory 5-business-day report-of-receipt deadline and 18-month auto-close horizon, change destination, cancel, and record a report of receipt with its conclusion code, plus a per-movement message log with a raw-XML view and a daily auto-close sweep. The live HMRC channel is deliberately disabled in production, so nothing can reach HMRC until it’s switched on; what’s left is configuration and verification against a real sandbox, not construction.
A completed experience: read-only access across returns, duty warrants and EMCS movements at every warehouse, turning a visit into a scoped login and a bulk audit export instead of a week of printouts.
The cask registry and physical-custody workflow a bonded warehouse runs on, from intake to stocktake, anchored by a cask identity that cannot be duplicated.
For distilleriesEverything upstream of new-make receipt, from vessels and versioned recipes to the mash → fermentation → distillation run chain, raw materials, and the efficiency figures that fall out of ordinary capture.
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