Hal Wilson
@HalWilsonUK
Owner of Cambridge Wine Merchants, IWC Merchant of the Year, and wannabe rock star
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£4billion in duty and contributing £67billion in economic activity. We want to be part of the economic growth the country desperately needs. Instead we will spend our time calculating ever decreasing amounts of tax, fuel inflation and look to manage our decline responsibly.
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..in drinking one wine over the other is extremely low. The Budget on Wednesday was a big one, looking to raise huge sums and start to fix the crumbling public services the Government inherited. From the wine trade's perspective we already are a part of the solution, raising
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..and temptation to cheat the system with false ABV labelling. Does it gain anything? If the ABV is true on a label the alcoholic difference between a glass of wine at 12% and 14%ABV is 0.25 units. The Health Dept recommends no more than 14 units per week so the additional risk
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.. growing rapidly but is saddled with policies that actively discriminate against it. The new policy means constant and material changes to the cost of the same wine from year to year, reduced choice, a temptation to produce lower alcohol, inferior wines for the UK wine drinker
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..will now become one of the most difficult places to export wine to, which is pretty gutting as the UK is also the second biggest export market in the world. The punitive taxes and admin are just as difficult to manage for domestic wine producers, a part of the market that was
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It inherited a policy it had criticised then accepted once in office. I guess our problems don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world and the Treasury heard but did not listen to our simple request. As employers our NIers increases may exceed our increased wine taxes.
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..But they are in addition and come with a huge amount of additional bureaucracy, will result in less investment, less tax (duty receipts have fallen £1.3 billion since the reforms were introduced) and inevitable price rises in hospitality and retail. On top of price rises the UK
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.. government. But hopes were dashed on Wednesday when, with not one mention of wine in the Budget speech, the fine print confirmed that duty would rise by 3.65% and the temporary provision for wine would end 'as planned'. This government never planned anything about the policy..
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Early signs that a Labour government would take the request seriously were positive, with shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves writing to me that 'the issue merits serious consideration' and my MP regularly pressing Treasury ministers from opposition and then cabinet colleagues in
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was made temporary, expiring in Feb 2025, after the general election and leaving the decision about the long term fate of the solution to a new government. The wine industry wanted to see the temporary solution made permanent as the issue was a permanent, annually occurring one.
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new wines entering the UK market each year. The tax on those wines also rose by 20%, a Brexit dividend we weren't told about during the Referendum campaign, and the biggest rise for 50 years. Weirdly, and this is where the Labour government come in to the picture, the provision
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Hunt to create a provision, or solution for wine that kept the intention of the policy (the higher the strength, the higher the tax) but taxed most wine on the market as if it was 12.5% ABV. That was a solution that made duty calculations more manageable for tens of thousands of
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failed to consider the warnings from constituents about what the policy would mean in practice. Most replies towed the party line, many went unanswered. By the time of the Spring Budget of 2023 however, enough MPs and Treasury officials had understood the problem that the policy
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..just didn't work for wine. Wine is an agricultural product and its alcoholic strength is not decided in the winery but in the vineyard (hours of sunshine, amount of rain, temperature, climate) and means changes from year to year and even within a year. They persuaded Jeremy
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Studies, the new policy changed wine taxation from a volume based charge to an alcoholic strength based charge. This was sold to MPs as a simpler, fairer and easier system to administer and one that included public health outcomes. Those claims sounded so reassuring that most MPs
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What the Budget means for wine businesses and drinkers, a thread. Rishi Sunak's weird alcohol tax reforms sought to take advantage of new found freedoms when the UK had left the EU. Heavily informed by a report funded by anti-alcohol think tank the Institute of Alcohol
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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What the audience does
Likes73.3%110 in total
Reposts10.0%15 in total
Replies11.3%17 in total
Bookmarks5.3%8 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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