Beer and wine to go up :(
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How the hell is 4p on a pint going to stop binge drinking?
Its isnt ,anymore than 2p on a litre of unleaded will curb car use. Its just a smoke screen for more tax. The only amount of tax that would stop or reduce drinking is putting around a quid on a pint or 3 quid on a 4 pack of cans.
this is the point, that excuse was just used to cover up another tax, 4p a pint every year will not stop binge drinking.
Its quite a hard problem to stop really, raising the price will also affect people who can drink a fair bit and not become yobs after, not just the ones who drink as many as they can for the sake of it, and go around causing agro and being anti-social.
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Has any tax gone down? Thought not.
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they will be one tax somewhere gone down no doubt on a chocolate fire guard or something 
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they will be one tax somewhere gone down no doubt on a chocolate fire guard or something
labour lowering a tax? unlikely
Corporation tax has decreased from 30% to 28%.
Luckily none of these changes affect me, expect the increased ISA limit.
Does anyone know what this "savings gateway" scheme is? An ISA replacement?
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The figures always make me laugh anyway.
3p on a pint of cider.
When was the last time you EVER saw the pub price of a pint go up by 3p? Pub prices very rarely change by anything other than a multiple of 5p so I sometimes wonder why the media makes such a fuss over how people will be affected by such duties.
3p on a pint of cider.
When was the last time you EVER saw the pub price of a pint go up by 3p? Pub prices very rarely change by anything other than a multiple of 5p so I sometimes wonder why the media makes such a fuss over how people will be affected by such duties.
Someone PLEASE explain to me why the tax has gone up 14 pence for a bottle of wine and only 4 pence for a pint of larger? I thought they were trying to deter people from binging on larger and alcopops!? They don't down a bottle of wine and start fights, camon! There's already a £1.33 of duty per wine bottle without another darn tax hike. I need a drink.
Because it contains more alcohol.
And the government want to make as much money as possible which is why they put even more tax on wines...
So because of a few binge drinkers they tax everyone, yeah that makes sense. Couldn't this be offset by the teetotallers?
Blatant tax hike with a rubbish reason. Next year it will be car tax increases because of joyriders and taxes on foodstuffs because of eggings at halloween
Blatant tax hike with a rubbish reason. Next year it will be car tax increases because of joyriders and taxes on foodstuffs because of eggings at halloween
People keep saying that this wont stop binge drinkers, but is that realy what its intended for? I assumed that the extra money the government gets goes to fix all the damages cause by binge drinkers, and covering the costs of police dealing with them.
If you dont like the tax increase, find a way to stop binge drinkers compleatly, then there will be no need for this higher tax. Untill then, the tax is needed to cover the extra costs of the binge drinkers.
If you dont like the tax increase, find a way to stop binge drinkers compleatly, then there will be no need for this higher tax. Untill then, the tax is needed to cover the extra costs of the binge drinkers.
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