Thursday, 19 December 2013

Ditch the alcohol duty escalator

I discussed the appallingly high rate of tax that the UK government puts on alcohol in my recent IEA paper Aggressively Regressive so I wholeheartedly support the new campaign to end the alcohol duty escalator.




For all the neo-temperance lobby's rhetoric about "pocket money prices", we in Britain pay a ridiculous amount of money for our drinks, most of which goes straight to the government. Hardly any other country in the world exploits drinkers like the UK and yet the coalition is currently committed to jacking up the price of wine and spirits above the rate of inflation for years to come. 



Please take a few seconds to visit the campaign website and let your MP know that enough is enough.