BUDGET 2013: Slight cheer for beer drinkers
Thursday 21 March 2013
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EmailBeer drinkers welcomed the scrapping of a duty escalator yesterday blamed for closing pubs, and for cutting duty by 1p a pint.
The beer industry and campaigners have warned that the escalator, which has added 2 per cent to the price of a pint since it was introduced by Labour in 2008, was forcing pubs out of business.
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