If true what I do like about Labour is their willingness to call interest groups’ bluff.
Private schools: “so you’ll happily raise your fees 17% in a year but a 20% tax increase will see an exodus of pupils?”
Pubs: “so you raised prices 75% during COVID and never put them back down but 2p on a pint will make your entire business model uneconomical?”
After-Dentist-2480 on
The sensible move would be to raise alcohol duty on off-sales in supermarkets and off licences, but leave it alone in pubs.
Shazalamadingdong on
What’s the bet this won’t affect the prices of alcohol in the Commons bar?
iamnosuperman123 on
What a fucking stupid idea. Oh looks the pub and restaurant sector is on its knees…let’s make it even harder for them
Scooby359 on
Another Telegraph story about things that haven’t happened, to stir people up.
Mods, can we start removing these as not news and just opinion pieces? It’s just made up stuff phrased as a news article, when it has no evidence at all on the story to justify the claims.
Harmless_Drone on
Literally anything and everything to avoid taxing millionaires and billionaires and wealth, cant wait for a VAT hike next.
kahnindustries on
Do, only boomers afford to be drinking these days anyway, about time they gave back to society
weirds0up on
Yeah, let’s cripple the hospitality industry even more. It’s not like there are energy suppliers that have been reporting record profits while repeatedly putting their prices up that should be facing a windfall tax on those profits.
Ok-Inevitable-3038 on
No objections, but bars are dead, people are already avoiding pints because they’re so expensive (I mean, that is a GOOD thing) but pints > £7 a pint people just won’t drink
tiny-robot on
Maybe they could look at minimum unit pricing.
This will get revenue from shops – while leaving pubs/ restaurants alone.
It could also be argued that it is a targeted tax to try and improve the nations health – to nudge people towards less harmful consumption.
Of course – Labour and their supporters have spent the last few years screaming hysterically at the Scottish MUP system – so they would be incredibly hypocritical to do it. So more likely a blunt alcohol duty rate rise which will damage economy without raising much revenue. That seems to be the Labour speciality.
StiffAssedBrit on
This is the Labour that were definitely not going to increase the tax burden on ordinary people! You know, those “hard working families” who were already struggling to afford a car to get to work, heat the house and have the occasional night out.
Watch the next budget. Fuel duty. Up!
Pay per mile. You live in a rural area therefore you must be rich. Cough up!
Action on domestic fuel. Do nothing!
Alcohol duty. Up!
Go home and sit in a duvet peasants!
If you can still afford a home that is.
limaconnect77 on
Someone needs to go get the small violin out for the pubs that have always been one significant missed payment away from going under.
Ya just can’t charge £6 (minimum) per pint and serve average luke-warm food pretending like it’s restaurant-quality with shit table service and expect people to keep coming back.
Metori on
After she is done with this budget will be the richest government in history with the poorest population.
Potential_Cover1206 on
All this says is this incompetent chancellor hasn’t a single clue as to what to do, so sticks to the utterly failed orthodoxy. FFs !!
Governments have been raising taxes by ommission or commission since 1997 and managed the square root of fuck all. Governments have been cutting expenditure haphazardly for the same length of time and achieved the square root of fuck all.
Is there not a single clown with an original thought anywhere ?
iamnotrodiguez on
Increase taxes on off licences which sell the cheap alcohol. Some of them make a killing on the cheap booze.
chocobowler on
She should raise a tax on gifts given to members of parliament , that would probally wipe out the deficit
Smart_Joke3740 on
Ah yes, further destroy hospitality whilst ignoring the elephant in the room for practically free revenue – recreational legalisation and regulated selling of cannabis. I’m a non smoker, but seems like a no brainer to me, seeing as it’s de facto decriminalised already – with most police forces unwilling to take action against basic possession unless absolutely necessary.
wellwellwelly on
Great.. so the likes of Heineken and Carlsberg will just keep lowering the abv of their alcohol and keep charging the same amount, and the only ones who suffer are the consumer and the pub.
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If true what I do like about Labour is their willingness to call interest groups’ bluff.
Private schools: “so you’ll happily raise your fees 17% in a year but a 20% tax increase will see an exodus of pupils?”
Pubs: “so you raised prices 75% during COVID and never put them back down but 2p on a pint will make your entire business model uneconomical?”
The sensible move would be to raise alcohol duty on off-sales in supermarkets and off licences, but leave it alone in pubs.
What’s the bet this won’t affect the prices of alcohol in the Commons bar?
What a fucking stupid idea. Oh looks the pub and restaurant sector is on its knees…let’s make it even harder for them
Another Telegraph story about things that haven’t happened, to stir people up.
Mods, can we start removing these as not news and just opinion pieces? It’s just made up stuff phrased as a news article, when it has no evidence at all on the story to justify the claims.
Literally anything and everything to avoid taxing millionaires and billionaires and wealth, cant wait for a VAT hike next.
Do, only boomers afford to be drinking these days anyway, about time they gave back to society
Yeah, let’s cripple the hospitality industry even more. It’s not like there are energy suppliers that have been reporting record profits while repeatedly putting their prices up that should be facing a windfall tax on those profits.
No objections, but bars are dead, people are already avoiding pints because they’re so expensive (I mean, that is a GOOD thing) but pints > £7 a pint people just won’t drink
Maybe they could look at minimum unit pricing.
This will get revenue from shops – while leaving pubs/ restaurants alone.
It could also be argued that it is a targeted tax to try and improve the nations health – to nudge people towards less harmful consumption.
Of course – Labour and their supporters have spent the last few years screaming hysterically at the Scottish MUP system – so they would be incredibly hypocritical to do it. So more likely a blunt alcohol duty rate rise which will damage economy without raising much revenue. That seems to be the Labour speciality.
This is the Labour that were definitely not going to increase the tax burden on ordinary people! You know, those “hard working families” who were already struggling to afford a car to get to work, heat the house and have the occasional night out.
Watch the next budget. Fuel duty. Up!
Pay per mile. You live in a rural area therefore you must be rich. Cough up!
Action on domestic fuel. Do nothing!
Alcohol duty. Up!
Go home and sit in a duvet peasants!
If you can still afford a home that is.
Someone needs to go get the small violin out for the pubs that have always been one significant missed payment away from going under.
Ya just can’t charge £6 (minimum) per pint and serve average luke-warm food pretending like it’s restaurant-quality with shit table service and expect people to keep coming back.
After she is done with this budget will be the richest government in history with the poorest population.
All this says is this incompetent chancellor hasn’t a single clue as to what to do, so sticks to the utterly failed orthodoxy. FFs !!
Governments have been raising taxes by ommission or commission since 1997 and managed the square root of fuck all. Governments have been cutting expenditure haphazardly for the same length of time and achieved the square root of fuck all.
Is there not a single clown with an original thought anywhere ?
Increase taxes on off licences which sell the cheap alcohol. Some of them make a killing on the cheap booze.
She should raise a tax on gifts given to members of parliament , that would probally wipe out the deficit
Ah yes, further destroy hospitality whilst ignoring the elephant in the room for practically free revenue – recreational legalisation and regulated selling of cannabis. I’m a non smoker, but seems like a no brainer to me, seeing as it’s de facto decriminalised already – with most police forces unwilling to take action against basic possession unless absolutely necessary.
Great.. so the likes of Heineken and Carlsberg will just keep lowering the abv of their alcohol and keep charging the same amount, and the only ones who suffer are the consumer and the pub.