Withdraw your application for alcoholic products producer approval (APPA)
Tell HMRC you want to withdraw your APPA application.
About this form
You need to tell HMRC if you want to withdraw your alcoholic products producer approval (APPA) application.
You cannot withdraw your application if we have already approved it.
There are different forms if you need to:
- tell HMRC about a change to your APPA
- request to cancel your APPA
What you will need
You will need to tell us your:
- business’s Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR)
- reason for withdrawing
- APPA submission reference
- your contact details
Withdraw your APPA application
Online
To withdraw your APPA application, you need to sign in with your Government Gateway user ID and password.
You can save your progress and come back later.
You’ll get a confirmation email with a submission reference once you have sent the form.
If you cannot use the online form
You can tell us you want to withdraw your APPA application by email or post if you are not able to use the online form.
Contact us by emailing or writing to HMRC.
After you have sent the form
We aim to review the form within 45 working days.
It may take longer if we need to ask you for more information.
Updates to this page
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The ‘If you cannot use the online form’ section has been updated to remove emailing as a way to withdraw your APPA application.
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Welsh translation added.
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First published.