Written Question·Treasury·UIN 11026

Wines: Excise Duties

Tabled: 24 October 2024
Answered: 31 October 2024

Question

Wera Hobhouse

Liberal DemocratBath

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the withdrawal of the temporary easement for wine on SMEs in the wine industry.

Answer

James Murray
In August 2023 the Government introduced reforms to alcohol duty so that products are taxed in proportion to their alcoholic strength, not volume.To help the wine industry adapt to the new duty system, the current, temporary duty easement was introduced a...

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