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The Scotch Whisky
Association welcomed the Chancellor's decision to
undertake a review of excise duties on alcoholic drinks.
The current inherited structure is illogical, and the
Association will be going to the Treasury to recommend a
fairer and more logical structure under which all
drinks are taxed at the same rate according to their
alcohol content. |
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However, the Association
is immensely disappointed that, in the meantime, the
Chancellor has employed the old device of applying
inflationary increases to all excise duties because that
simply reverses recent progress and again widens
discrimination against spirits. |
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The Association said:
"We are surprised that he should have made any
changes, since that would seem to pre-empt the outcome of
his review. By raising duties ahead of the review, the
Chancellor has failed his own test of fairness." |
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"The last two rises
in spirits duty generated less money for the Treasury, so
if the Chancellor expects to raise more revenue by this
move, he is likely to be very disappointed." |
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