Taxes on drinks including beer, wine and cider will be slashed after the chancellor announced the most sweeping changes to alcohol duty in living memory.
Announcing the move, Rishi Sunak, who is teetotal, said the UK’s system of alcohol duty, whose roots date back to 1643, was “outdated, complex and full of historical anomalies”.
Sunak described the five-point plan, which takes effect in 2023, as the biggest overhaul of alcohol duty for 140 years and claimed the changes had been made possible by
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