Wine Society describes planned alcohol duty changes as ‘ludicrous, expensive and probably unworkable’
Archived version: https://archive.ph/fTHRO
Wine Society describes planned alcohol duty changes as ‘ludicrous, expensive and probably unworkable’
Archived version: https://archive.ph/fTHRO
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So, it must be going down or staying the same for 57%. Oh noes, what a calamity.
It is a bit more complicated to tax by % ABV rather than per bottle but it really is not that much more complicated. The retailers have all the data needed to do the calculation, it's not like they were previously working out their tax bill by hand-counting bottles of wine.
Both taxation systems are crap, of course. The per bottle and per 0.1%ABV schemes are so that they don't have to do it by price because taxing rich people would be wrong. Fuckers.