Showing posts with label duty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label duty. Show all posts
Monday, 5 November 2012

Cash, crime and the dodging of taxes

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**** We've become pretty judging of others - and especially businesses - for what we see as the dodging of taxes. Yet, a few saints an...
Thursday, 18 October 2012

Why tobacco duty is now counter-productive...

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**** I am grateful to Mr Worstall for digging out the stat from the bowels of HMRC reporting: Key findings for hand rolling tobacco (H...
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Friday, 16 March 2012

More hypocrisy about saving the pub...

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**** There's an Early Day Motion : That this House notes that beer and pubs contribute 21 billion to UK GDP and support almost one ...
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Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Stop the Beer Duty Escalator!

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**** The nice brewing folk at Hobgoblin have an e-petition: Every year, the beer tax escalator increases the tax on beer by 2% above th...
Thursday, 1 March 2012

Prohibition doesn't work does it? More evidence from Bradford...

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**** The sale of 'illegal' cigarettes and tobacco is growing - according to this article it 'costs' the HMRC "£10 mil...
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Learning from Jehovah's Witnesses...

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**** Sunday last I chanced across some Jehovah’s Witnesses as they plied their proselytising ways in Harecroft, a little hamlet between Cu...
Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Cut the tax on flying George

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**** I received an e-mail from Leeds Bradford Airport today regarding the consultation on proposed increases in Air Passenger Duty (APD): ...
Monday, 3 January 2011

On the death of the pub...

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**** Missed this brilliant obituary for the English pub in The Economist: The 2007 smoking ban drove regulars onto chilly backless ben...
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Sunday, 21 March 2010

Prohibitionist, puritan, anti-business...that's the UK Government for you

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Our Government - egged on by leading prohibitionists like Sir Ian Gilmore and its own bigoted grass roots - has targeted the wine business ...
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