Beer: Excise Duties

(asked on 20th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to support small independent breweries by (a) cancelling beer duty payments or (b) extending time to pay arrangements to include beer duty payments during the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 25th March 2020

Time to Pay arrangements are already available to all brewers, which enable them to seek deferrals for beer duty and other taxes with no interest or late penalties due. HMRC’s dedicated Covid-19 helpline can be reached by calling: 0800 0159 559.

This comes on top of the wider package of support announced by the Chancellor, worth over £350bn. Small brewers will be able to access interest-free loans, defer their VAT payments due on VAT returns for the period until the end of June and receive support worth up to 80% of their employees’ wages.

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