Chancellor Rishi Sunak slashed tax on bottles of champagne in his Budget - but left it off a fact sheet of booze tax changes.
Mr Sunak announced he was ending the "irrational'' 28 percent duty premium on sparkling wines in his speech. He told MPs: "Sparkling wines - wherever they are produced - will now pay the same duty as still wines of equivalent strength." The Treasury had trailed the change as a boost to English sparkling wine producers.
But the change also cuts tax on a bottle of Bollinger champagne by around 64p a bottle. Following his speech, the Treasury distributed a helpful fact sheet to reporters, with 48 examples of how taxes will go up or down on specific beverages, the Mirror reports.
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