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CAMRA produces 20,000 postcards to rally support for beer duty petition
Posted on May 22, 2012 by Michelle Perrett, The Publican's Morning Advertiser in E-Petition in the NewsCAMRA has produced 20,000 postcards to take to beer festivals to rally support for the industry petition calling for the end of the beer duty escalator. The industry petition, which is heading towards 50,000 signatures needs to hit 100,000 to force a debate on the issue in the House of Commons. CAMRA has obtained authorisation [...]
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DEVON COUNTY SHOW: Brewer calls for cut in ‘unfair’ beer tax
Posted on May 18, 2012 by Western Morning News in E-Petition in the NewsA petition to combat the “unfair and extortionate” tax on real ales has been launched at Devon County Show by a leading Westcountry brewer. Patrick McCaig of Otter Brewery, based in Luppitt, East Devon, said that tax on cask ales had risen by 42 per cent in four years. “This damaging tax is causing [...]
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Are Pasties Better Than Beer?
Posted on May 18, 2012 by Mark J Daniels in E-Petition in the NewsFor as long as I can remember, people have complained about the price of a pint of beer. It’s as commonplace a discussion around the bar as the Great British Weather and if I had a pound for every time I’d heard somebody say “when the price of a pint reaches £2 I’ll stop drinking; [...]
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Save Your Pint- Sign The Beer Tax E-petition
Posted on May 18, 2012 by Everards in E-Petition in the NewsChampioned by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), they explain why this is such a key issue… It’s time to save your pint and fight back against this year’s budget which saw the Government continue its damaging policy of the beer duty escalator. Rising taxation on beer is a serious and growing threat to the [...]
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BLOG WATCH: The Blog
Posted on May 18, 2012 by Robert Hinds in E-Petition in the NewsSave Your Pint – #SaveYourPint The beer duty escalator was introduced by the last Government in 2008, and is currently in place until 2014/15. It means that beer duty is automatically increased by 2% above inflation every single year. As a result, tax on beer has gone up by over 40% since 2008. You now pay [...]
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Time to prove that beer is more popular than pasties – Sign the petition
Posted on May 4, 2012 by Rob Willock, The Publican's Morning Advertiser in E-Petition in the NewsNearly 500,000 people in the UK have signed petitions against the so-called ‘pasty tax’, which will see a 20% rate of VAT applied to heated pasties and pies. Meanwhile, at the time of writing, the ‘Stop the Beer Duty Escalator’ petition had managed to attract fewer than 37,000 signatures — just over one third of [...]
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A dozen pubs close each week
Posted on May 1, 2012 by James Hall, The Telegraph in E-Petition in the NewsA dozen pubs a week are closing across the UK due to the Government’s “crippling” increases in beer tax, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has warned. New figures from the group show that 300 pubs closed between September 2011 and March 2012, equivalent to 12 a week. Suburban and rural areas have borne the [...]
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Pub closures spark beer tax plea
Posted on May 1, 2012 by Press Association, Yahoo News in E-Petition in the NewsPubs are closing at the rate of 12 a week, with “crippling” beer taxes threatening the future of the industry, the Government has been warned. Real ale campaign group Camra said that between last September and March, eight pubs closed every week in towns and four in rural areas. Lancashire and the West Midlands [...]
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‘Crippling’ beer tax shuts down 12 British pubs a week
Posted on May 1, 2012 by ITN in E-Petition in the NewsPub landlords are calling time on their businesses at a rate of 12 every week in Britain as rising beer taxes “cripple” the industry. Duty on alcohol has soared by 42 per cent since 2008 sparking widespread criticism over above-inflation tax increases. Real ale campaign group Camra said more than 33,000 consumers have now signed [...]
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Calls for beer tax rethink as 12 pubs shut every week
Posted on May 1, 2012 by Steve Holden, Newsbeat in E-Petition in the NewsNewsbeat reporter in LancashireJames Harding, 18, is manager of the Withy Arms in Bamber Bridge, LancsThe Campaign For Real Ale (Camra) says 12 pubs are closing across England, Scotland and Wales every week. The consumer group says the figure, up to the end of March 2012, is a drop on its previous findings. Despite [...]
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