Question follow-through · 11491
Business: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the cost to businesses of administering the excise duty system following the end of the temporary easement on 1 February 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the cost to businesses of administering the excise duty system following the end of the temporary easement on 1 February 2025.
30 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2024
Answer published
In August 2023 the Government introduced reforms to alcohol duty so that products are taxed in proportion to their alcoholic strength, not volume. The reforms aimed to modernise and simplify the system, to prioritise public health and incentivise consumpt...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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