Beer: Taxation

(asked on 5th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the revenue to the public purse from sales of beer since April 2014.


Answered by
Priti Patel Portrait
Priti Patel
This question was answered on 9th March 2015

Receipts from duties on beer that is released for consumption in the UK are published in Table 5 of our monthly alcohol bulletin:

https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Pages/TaxAndDutybulletins.aspx

Information on VAT paid by consumers on beer is not available. HM Revenue & Customs do not collect data on VAT receipts by individual goods or services.

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