Voxpop - what do you think of the tax increase on alcohol? - video Dailymotion

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00:00 Yeah, so I think that, you know, it is a bit of a weird decision.

00:05 I definitely think that there's lots of other places that, you know, that money could be

00:10 redirected to.

00:13 And yeah, I definitely think that it'll change when I do go out what I will buy because it's,

00:18 you know, it's not fair.

00:20 There's a cost of living crisis as it is at the moment and places like pubs and going

00:25 out to bars and stuff are meant to be like a kind of place where we can just relax and

00:32 just kind of do our thing and having to worry about that on top of the rest of the stuff

00:39 that's going on at the moment is just a bit, just a bit too much really.

00:43 So what's your take on obviously this week Rishi Shunuk has raised put tax on certain

00:49 alcohols so 44% raise in wine and some beers have raised but not on pints.

00:56 Do you drink yourself?

00:57 I do, I do love a drink.

01:01 Judging what's happened with the duty and the tax rises to the alcohol industry, it

01:06 seems a too punitive to the hospitality industry that's been absolutely ravaged through energy

01:12 bills, COVID over the last four to five years.

01:16 And now to heap even more pressure on the industry seems unfair.

01:21 I know there's been an element of moving the tax based on buying from the supermarket and

01:27 consuming at home as opposed to trying to encourage people to still use our fantastic

01:31 pubs and bars etc but it does seem a step too far.

01:37 Also from a wholesaling perspective now the duty on wine has moved to different duties

01:43 per half percent within wine.

01:46 That coupled with the additional paperwork and tariffs involved post Brexit seems double,

01:54 tertiary, quadruple pressure put on an industry that was already struggling.

01:59 So would it put you off sort of ban alcohol or changing what alcohol you drink, sort of

02:03 going to bars even?

02:05 It would change my outlook on who I go support from going out to a bar so trying to keep

02:12 the money in the local economy with the independents as opposed to money being funneled into the

02:17 big massive pub chains and hotel chains etc.

02:20 I think it's even more, now more than ever important that we support the local.