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More than 100 MPs call for duty escalator to be 'suspended'

21-Mar-2011 By James Wilmore

More than 100 MPs are backing calls by the industry for the Chancellor to "suspend" the duty escalator for 2011 in Wednesday's Budget. An early day...

Tax shouldn't be taxing, apparently

25-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ

Well, are you thrilled at the prospect of an Office for Tax Simplification, created by the Chancellor of the Exchequer as per his promise of two...

Budget fails to impress businesses

29-Mar-2010 By Matt Eley Matt

The Budget has done little to help small businesses, according to 90 per cent of people surveyed in a poll. In a snapshot poll of members the Forum...

Budget: all the reaction

24-Mar-2010 By MA news team

Trade leaders and bodies give all their reaction to the news that beer duty will increase 5% and cider 13% from Sunday.

Beer duty set to rise 9.4%

04-Sep-2009 By John Harrington

Trade leader Tony Payne has warned the Chancellor beer duty would rise to a massive 9.4% from 1 January if it isn't cut when VAT returns to normal....

'Darling doesn't give a XXXX for Britain's pubs'

22-Apr-2009 By Ewan Turney

The Budget has shown that the Government does not give a XXXX about Britain's pubs, says the ALMR.

ALMR calls for VAT hike delay

20-Apr-2009 By Ewan Turney

The Chancellor should use the Budget to delay the VAT rise by a month as well as freeze duty on beer, says ALMR.

Axe the Tax: 48 hours to save the pub

20-Apr-2009 By Ewan Turney

The beer and pub industry has warned the Chancellor there are just 48 hours to save the pub trade. Industry figures, MPs and celebrities including...

Six out of 10 MPs against Budget beer tax rise

15-Apr-2009 By James Wilmore

Six out of 10 MPs are against plans to increase beer tax in next week's Budget, according to a new poll. The survey, conducted by pollsters ComRes,...

How much does beer tax cost you?

12-Mar-2009 By James Wilmore

On Monday (March 16) key players in the trade are due to speak to the Chancellor about the severe impact high alcohol duty is having on people...

Comment: We're dangerously obsessed with price

09-Mar-2009

The past week has emphasised how dangerously obsessed with price we are.The trade's submissions in the run-up to the Budget are of huge importance,...

CLICK TO WIELD THE AXE

27-Feb-2009 By Andrew Pring

Many thousands have so far signed up to the Axe the Beer Tax campaign, but more of us need to if we are to influence the Chancellor come Budget day, says Andrew Pring.

Vote Labour? Never again

05-Dec-2008 By Roger Protz

What on earth is the Government trying to do to pubs? Roger Protz can't believe its latest tax moves.

A new kick in the teeth

29-Nov-2008 By Hamish Champ

The licensed trade's reaction to last week's move by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to cut VAT but claw back the lost tax revenue with another hike...

'Chancellor in low spirits as PBR blunder rectified'

27-Nov-2008

The Chancellor was forced to backtrack on a key element of his Pre-Budget Report on Wednesday after he admitted that the Treasury had got its sums...

Prime Minister urged to help pubs

18-Sep-2008

A desperate licensee has written to the Prime Minister to demand that something is done to stop supermarkets undercutting pubs.Irene Nuttall, who...

Pubs forgotten in stamp-duty plan

13-Aug-2008 By Paul Collins

The licensed property trade is being cold-shouldered by the Chancellor after he hinted at plans to suspend stamp-duty charges in the residential sector.

Darling duty hikes anger voters: poll

17-Jul-2008

The Government didn't listen to the trade when the latest alcohol-duty hikes were imposed. But maybe it will listen to voters, who give the increases...

Punch bans Chancellor from 8,449 pubs

24-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney

Britain's largest pub company moves to ban Alistair Darling from all of its 8,449 pubs following his devastating budget

Stuff the Supermarkets says Stuff the Chancellor too

15-Apr-2008 By Matt Eley Matt

The Stuff the Supermarkets campaign is preparing for the latest round in its attempt to stop customers buying cheap alcohol from supermarkets.The...

Lib Dems want alcohol tax hike

11-Mar-2008 By Ewan Turney

Party announces plans to raise tax on high strength alcoholic drinks

Calm before the storm

13-Feb-2008

On March 12 Chancellor Alistair Darling will step out of Number 11 Downing Street clutching a small red briefcase containing his first Budget as...

Mixed news for Wine & Spirit group

21-Mar-2007

The Wine and Spirit Trade Association welcomes spirit duty freeze but says it is shocked by sparkling wine increase

Brown's Budget spells bad news for smuggling

09-Apr-2003

A rise in cross-Channel bootlegging is inevitable following the Chancellor's penny-on-a-pint tax hike.So say trade leaders who feel today's Budget...

Pubs dealt further blow as crisis hits Customs

06-Nov-2002

Pubs are set to be dealt a further blow in their fight to halt booze cruisers as Customs and Excise find themselves in crisis.Customs and Excise is...