The Taxpayers’ Union supports the Brewers Association’s push for urgent reform of alcohol excise taxes, arguing that rising taxes are driving up beer prices and worsening the cost-of-living crisis, while current tax justification methods create a circular and unsustainable logic.
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harm metrics used to justify taxes feed back into the same problem
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