No. Hang yourselves. The governments of the other EU countries would be ecstatic to collect the alcohol taxes HMRC does.. But the citizens of the other EU nations would hang them. And they know it.
You pay exactly the taxes you consent to. UK. Currently the most craven electorate in the EU.
Bloke in Germany
Isn’t Tim suggesting that the government needs to vote for a new electorate?
Andrew K
Havana Club 3 y o (my tipple of choice). Delhaize Belgium €13 per bottle. Tesco Bangor £20 per bottle.
dearieme
We only get through a couple of bottles of wine a week. Youse guys must be drinking a helluva lot.
VftS
dearieme, it’s paying all that tax that drives us to drink
john77
No, drown them in a butt of malmsey.
Preferably the same butt each time: wastes less wine and makes each drowning just a little bit more unpleasant than the last.
Exempt any Heathcott-Amory, because he exempted homebrew.
Admittedly this has been a problem since before Burns wrote “The De’ils awa’ with the exciseman”, but it has got a lot worse recently.
Richard
JB Priestley had a rather good line, along the lines of “first the government drives us to drink, then they increase the alcohol duty”.
Roue le Jour
One of the few things I actually remember from “Wealth of Nations” is an offhand reference to taxing the poor’s alcohol “for their own good”. I had no idea the bastards had been at it so long.
No. Hang yourselves. The governments of the other EU countries would be ecstatic to collect the alcohol taxes HMRC does.. But the citizens of the other EU nations would hang them. And they know it.
You pay exactly the taxes you consent to. UK. Currently the most craven electorate in the EU.
Isn’t Tim suggesting that the government needs to vote for a new electorate?
Havana Club 3 y o (my tipple of choice). Delhaize Belgium €13 per bottle. Tesco Bangor £20 per bottle.
We only get through a couple of bottles of wine a week. Youse guys must be drinking a helluva lot.
dearieme, it’s paying all that tax that drives us to drink
No, drown them in a butt of malmsey.
Preferably the same butt each time: wastes less wine and makes each drowning just a little bit more unpleasant than the last.
Exempt any Heathcott-Amory, because he exempted homebrew.
Admittedly this has been a problem since before Burns wrote “The De’ils awa’ with the exciseman”, but it has got a lot worse recently.
JB Priestley had a rather good line, along the lines of “first the government drives us to drink, then they increase the alcohol duty”.
One of the few things I actually remember from “Wealth of Nations” is an offhand reference to taxing the poor’s alcohol “for their own good”. I had no idea the bastards had been at it so long.