Sentences with phrase «alcohol duty escalator»

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

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

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.

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

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«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.

Moreover, whisky drinkers pay about 50 % more duty than beer drinkers for the same amount of alcohol; and in 2013 the Chancellor reinforced this difference by removing the escalator from beer and cutting beer duty.

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

Earlier this month, the Alcohol Health Alliance called for higher tax on high strength ciders and the reintroduction of the duty escalator, which ensured that alcohol taxes rose above inflation eacAlcohol Health Alliance called for higher tax on high strength ciders and the reintroduction of the duty escalator, which ensured that alcohol taxes rose above inflation eacalcohol taxes rose above inflation each year.

Mr Deputy Speaker, there's another duty escalator — the annual two percent above inflation increases in alcohol.