Call Time On Duty campaign
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Let's try and get the duty escalator scrapped. Horrifying statistics at the Call Time On Duty website. Why not send your MP a letter and see if he'll ask George Osborne to give us all a break.
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57 % vat on wine????????
Here in Germany we pay 19%, which is the normal vat rate for almost everything.
I hope all wine-lovers will unite to put so much pressure on the government that this crazy scheme is scraped.
Here in Germany we pay 19%, which is the normal vat rate for almost everything.
I hope all wine-lovers will unite to put so much pressure on the government that this crazy scheme is scraped.
The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt know thy Port
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It's not 57% VAT. VAT is 20% on all goods, but the excise duty on wine and spirits is set to rise automatically by 2% above inflation every year at the moment (a 'duty escalator'). This means that, when you work out the total cost of a price of wine or spirits, that amount is going to the Treasury in some form of tax or other. Quite ridiculous, as you say.AW77 wrote:57 % vat on wine????????
Here in Germany we pay 19%, which is the normal vat rate for almost everything.
I hope all wine-lovers will unite to put so much pressure on the government that this crazy scheme is scraped.
Daniel J.
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It is not quite that badAW77 wrote:57 % vat on wine????????
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In the UK we pay a fixed amount of Duty on wine (currently £2 per bottle) plus VAT (@ 20%) on the cost + Duty. The 57% represents the combined effect of duty and VAT on a cheap bottle of wine. The higher the price of the wine the lower the impact of the duty becomes.
The solution is to only drink expensive wine
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"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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Well I think that was a half victory.
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Yes could have been worse.
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Does this mean that you will be leaving any future offers like the Croft 2004 unfilterd lbv in Tesco's on the shelf to avoid paying a higher % of tax? All the more left for the rest of us!DRT wrote:The solution is to only drink expensive wineAW77 wrote:57 % vat on wine????????![]()
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This means that duty on a case (12 bottles = 9 litres) of port will rise from £32 to £32.80; duty on a bottle will rise from approx. £2.67 (depending on rounding) to £2.74.The UK Government, in the Budget 2014 briefing document [url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/293872/TIIN_8000_alcohol_duty_rates.pdf]Alcohol Duty Rates[/url] wrote:duty on wine and made-wine exceeding 15 per cent but not exceeding 22 per cent abv: £364.37 per hectolitre of product;
Can a mathematician with time on his hands (is there any other sort?) tell me how much more it would have been had the escalator been retained?
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Another freeze on wine duty has been announced in this year's Budget: am I correct in thinking this applies to fortified wines too?
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