date:Jul 24, 2012
BPA's chief executive, launched a fresh attack on the government's alcohol duty escalator. The chancellor cant change the weather, but he can stop the misguided beer tax hikes that are damaging the sector and doing virtually nothing to help tackle the deficit, she said.
The very marginal rise in beer duty revenues the government is achieving is being all but wiped out by a fall in income from employment and other taxes.
About 68,000 people have so far signed an e-petition calling for an end