Sentences with phrase «alcohol duty»

The smoking ban, increases in alcohol duty and declining real wages since the recession have directly contributed to more than half of all closures since 2006.

Instead, policies such as the smoking ban and alcohol duty escalator are responsible for speeding up the rate of closures in the past decade compared to the last forty years of steady decline in the pub industry.

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This asks the Government to extend what it did last year, by freezing alcohol duty in 2014 and scrapping the escalator.

Alistair Darling ordered a six per cent increase on alcohol duty, with the revenue used to fund Labour's child poverty initiatives.

«In 2008 the government raised alcohol duty by six per cent in real terms and introduced a duty escalator that automatically increased alcohol taxes by two per cent above inflation every year thereafter,» he said.

Some critics of the UK's alcohol duties regime put the problem down to the differential rates in the UK and the rest of Europe.

A Treasury spokesperson said: «The revenues from alcohol duty make an important contribution to tackling Britain's debt crisis.

Instead, to end the downward spiral of the industry, Mr Snowden claimed ministers must lower alcohol duty and VAT, as well as reconsidering one - size - fits - all policies such as the smoking ban.

«Cuts to alcohol duty impose a heavy toll on our health service and our public finances, with no clear corresponding benefit to the economy.

Spotlight - UK drinks sector falls victim to sin tax strategy The steep rise in alcohol duties announced in yesterday's Budget, which the Government says will help to tackle binge drinking, follows

The Major government recognised this problem, and froze alcohol duties in its final years in an attempt to stem the tide of duty evasion, a policy continued by Labour.

UK: Higher taxes better than minimum pricing, argues OFT The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) says it believes raising alcohol duties, instead of minimum pricing, would be a better way to tackle pro

The Government should reverse course, and undo the damage of four successive years of falling tax on alcohol duty.»

This budget, the wine and spirit trade are calling on the Chancellor to make a modest 2 % cut in alcohol duty.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has announced that alcohol duties will increase, with inflation, lifting a freeze on beer and spirits duties which had been imposed in 2015.

That's why I'm with the 64 % of people in this country who think that alcohol duty is too high.

Alcohol duty increases will go towards helping some of the poorest members of our society.»

The Call Time on Duty Campaign has consistently argued that the alcohol duty escalator was bad for consumers, for business and for the economy.

Measures such as the higher personal allowance, the freeze in fuel duty, and abolition of the alcohol duty escalator will all ease the burden on hard - pressed families.

Licensing minister Gerry Sutcliffe said he wanted the chancellor to change his mind over the alcohol duty hike announced in this year's Budget.

The Government faces a dilemma with regard to alcohol duties.

There had been speculation drinkers could be hit by another increase in alcohol duty, after Labour chancellor Alistair Darling hiked the duty on beer and wine by 26 % since the beginning of 2008.

The IEA called on ministers to halve alcohol duty - pointing out that British drinkers pay 40 per cent of the EU's entire alcohol duty bill.

The small sample (518) backs the 50p tax rate by a large majority and also supports the new allowance for savers, the scrappage scheme for old cars and the increase in alcohol duty.

The alcohol duty escalator - introduced in 2008, but maintained under the coalition - automatically increases duty by inflation plus 2 %.

British consumers - the hardworking people that the Government wants to help - pay nearly 40 % of all alcohol duty paid in the whole of the EU.

A new report from the Institute of Alcohol Studies, Splitting the Bill: Alcohol's Impact on the UK Economy, argues that the economic benefits of the alcohol industry are overstated, undermining the economic case for cutting alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

His proposed tax hikes would see 2p more onto the 20p basic rate of income tax, 3p onto the 40p higher rate of income tax, 5p on the rate of inheritance tax, and a 5 % jump in fuel and alcohol duties.

For the former, see the lifting of tax restrictions on how pensioners can access their pension pots, and for the latter see bingo duty halved to 10 %, yet another penny off a pint, and alcohol duty frozen for Scotch and «ordinary cider».