Sentences with phrase «froze alcohol duties»

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.

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

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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.

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.