Topic: | Re:Re:Real ale | |
Posted by: | Richard Greenhough | |
Date/Time: | 13/03/08 17:52:00 |
"Why is real ale being taxed at the same high rate as Lager ?" I find it difficult to envisage either Brown or Darling as real ale drinkers (Ken Clarke is a different matter, but I don't have great hopes for Cameron & Osborne) and I doubt if the senior civil servants at the Treasury are either, so the idea has probably not occurred to them. I was thinking yesterday after the budget that a tax regime that favoured traditional English ale over lager would be a good idea in a number of ways, but reckoned that it might be too late to beneficially alter the nation's drinking habits in that way after forty-odd years of high-powered advertising pushing the flavourless cold continental variety. Besides, it might be difficult to frame such a tax differential in a way that would not have our masters in Brussels crying "foul" ! |