Alcohol Tax

Booze Britain: Is Minimum Pricing The Answer?

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 01.03.2013 | UK

The debate over a minimum price for alcohol has been reopened after experts called for the UK government to fast-track the controversial policy. A ...

Customs Under Fire For £1bn Alcohol Tax Evasion Failures

PA | Posted 29.08.2012 | UK Politics

Customs officials have been criticised for failing to crack down on criminal gangs who dodge alcohol tax at an estimated cost to the Treasury of more ...

Lost in the Sin Tax

Ayo Akintola | Posted 20.05.2012 | UK Politics
Ayo Akintola

Successive governments have relentlessly battered the alcohol industry with increase after increase in what they hideously call a sin tax. This is starting to have an impact and in the wine industry, our normally good mannered blood is starting to rise.

Where Is Britain's New Alcohol Strategy?

Rupert Wolfe-Murray | Posted 15.04.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Rupert Wolfe-Murray

Health reform is perhaps the most divisive issue in Britain's government... and there is another health issue that the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary do not agree on: the new Alcohol Strategy, which is expected to be announced any day now. David Cameron wants a minimum price to be imposed on cheap supermarket alcohol, while Andrew Lansley prefers self regulation.