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Opinion: The escalator that’s pricing beer into insensibility

By Andy Boddington | Wed 12th December 2012 - 10:59 am

Today, upward of a thousand enthusiasts are descending on Westminster to demand protection for one of the nation’s great heritage assets. Beer.

The Labour government of old was unduly fond of price and tax escalators, which generally take the form of retail price index plus a bit more. I have always regarded this as a rather odd fiscal mechanism because it simply creates a circularity that feeds itself. Costs go up, the RPI duly rises, and costs go up again as a result.

It beats me why the coalition has decided to maintain this blunt policy. Fiscal escalators

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged pubs and tax | 10 Comments

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