Lobby your MP - Cut Beer Duty

[Gus, Mansfield & Ashfield Branch.]

Hi All,

About a year ago the Government imposed an 8% increase on beer duty to
ensure that pub consumers and industry did not benefit from the VAT
cut which took effect on 1 January.

This was both unfair and unjustified – and now the Government appears
ready to deliver another hammer blow by keeping duty up once VAT
returns to its 17.5% rate on 1 January next year.

This will mean a further 6p on a pint of beer and even more pub
closures – now running at about 50 a week across Britain.

So please lobby your MP to sign up to a parliamentary motion to call
on the Chancellor to cut beer duty as VAT increases when he makes his
Pre-Budget Statement on 9 December.

You can lobby your MP by following this link http://www.backthepub.co.uk/

Cheers!
Gus Manning