Non Exclusive: ***NO MAIL ONLINE UNLESS AGREED***Model and publican, Jodie Kidd is making a final desperate plea to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, to cut Bee
Non Exclusive: ***NO MAIL ONLINE UNLESS AGREED***Model and publican, Jodie Kidd is making a final desperate plea to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, to cut Beer Duty in the upcoming Budget on 3rd March. Jodie, who owns The Half Moon pub in Kirdford, West Sussex, first started petitioning Government for a cut in Beer Duty in 2018, when on average, three pubs a day closed their doors for good. Despite three long years of campaigning with Long Live The Local, almost 500,000 petition signatures and more than 250,000 people writing to their MP, the Government is yet to reduce Beer Duty, a tax which is three times higher in the UK than the average across the EU and 11 times higher than in Germany and Spain. Since taking the reins of her local pub in Kirdford, Jodie has experienced the tax pressures publicans face first-hand. She comments, “Pubs face a range of tax pressures including VAT, Business Rates and Beer Duty. I first backed the Long Live The Local campaign in 2018, when pubs were already struggling to survive with three pubs closing every day. The Government must act to help save pubs from the dire situation they face now. Following a year of lockdowns, severe trading restrictions and huge uncertainty, almost 2000 pubs closed their doors for good - thats five local pubs every day - gone forever. We must do everything we can to protect others from the same fate.” In 2020, 87 million pints were poured down the drain costing pubs and brewers £331million. On top of this, trading restrictions and lockdowns hit pub beer sales by 56% - worth £ There are now growing concerns about the planned RPI linked increase in Beer Duty in the upcoming Budget which seriously questions the survival of pubs and breweries. On average, £1 in every £3 spent in the pub already goes straight to the taxman. In the UK for every pint of 5% ABV beer you pay 54p in Beer Duty, however for the same pint in Spain you would pay only 5p. With seven in 10 alcoholic drinks served in pubs being
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