![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/gin-and-tonic-set-to-soar-in-price-as-jeremy-hunt-urged-to-scrap-tax-bombshell/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_MAINSOCIAL-5.jpg&description=As ministers prepare to jet off on extended summer holidays this week, the Chancellor is being urged to scrap the increase in duty on spirits on 1 August, and will add as much as 10p to the price of a G&T The cost of refreshing summer drinks is set to soar unless Tory Jeremy Hunt rethinks his gin and tonic tax bombshell, campaigners have warned. As ministers prepare to jet off on extended summer holidays this week, the Chancellor is being urged to scrap the increase in duty on spirits on 1 August, and will add as much as 10p to the price of a G&T. A third of drinks served in pubs are spirits - and aren't covered by the Tories' ' Brexit pub guarantee' which freezes duty on pints. 'Providing relief on draught beer and cider while hiking tax on home-grown spirits that make up a massive chunk of pub sales will hammer pubs, distillers and consumers alike,' said a spokesman for Wessex Gin, an independent distiller based in Mr Hunt's constituency. "Research increasingly shows that consumers prefer premium products like British gin. The Chancellor needs to think again.' Tax on non-draft alcohol sold in pubs and shops - including bottled beers and spirits - is set to rise by an inflation-busting 10.1%, the largest rise since the 1980s. It means the cost of a bottle of vodka sold in a supermarket will soar by as much as £1. But the UK Spirits Alliance found the average cost of a G&T in London was already nearly £10 - which would go up by 10p if landlords passed the full tax rise on to consumers. The 2019 Tory' manifesto, which Rishi Sunak claims to stand by, pledged to 'ensure that our tax system is supporting British drink producers'. Jay Byers, who owns distillery Steel River Drinks in Stockton on Teesside said: 'This hike on spirits duty is going to come as a bombshell for the whole industry. 'We are already managing shocking energy bills, record inflation and rocketing interest rates, and a fresh hike on duty is the last thing distillers and our hospitality industry needs){kind=link}
As ministers prepare to jet off on extended summer holidays this week, the Chancellor is being urged to scrap the increase in duty on spirits on 1 August, and will add as much as 10p to the price of a G&T
The cost of refreshing summer drinks is set to soar unless Tory Jeremy Hunt rethinks his gin and tonic tax bombshell, campaigners have warned.
As ministers prepare to jet off on extended summer holidays this week, the Chancellor is being urged to scrap the increase in duty on spirits on 1 August, and will add as much as 10p to the price of a G&T. A third of drinks served in pubs are spirits – and aren’t covered by the Tories’ ” Brexit pub guarantee” which freezes duty on pints.
“Providing relief on draught beer and cider while hiking tax on home-grown spirits that make up a massive chunk of pub sales will hammer pubs, distillers and consumers alike,” said a spokesman for Wessex Gin, an independent distiller based in Mr Hunt’s constituency. “Research increasingly shows that consumers prefer premium products like British gin. The Chancellor needs to think again.”
Tax on non-draft alcohol sold in pubs and shops – including bottled beers and spirits – is set to rise by an inflation-busting 10.1%, the largest rise since the 1980s.