UK’s largest pubs and breweries demand immediate cut in beer dut
The letter, which appears in Friday’s edition of The Times to coincide with the start of Euro 2024, has been signed by 80 of the UK’s leading brewers and pub groups including Heineken, Budweiser, Greene King, Stonegate, JD Wetherspoon and Diageo.
They call for a cut in duty as a “first step” towards bringing the UK in line with the European average and an “urgent radical reform” of business rates.
The Government has frozen beer duty since 2020 and the current rate is in place until February 2025.
The letter reads: “For every three pounds spent in a pub, one pound goes straight to the tax man.
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