Proposed changes to alcohol duty will lead to higher prices and less choice for wine drinkers, the owner of wine merchant Laithwaites has warned.
The proposals, contained in October’s Budget, were described by Chancellor Rishi Sunak as the “most radical simplification of alcohol duties for over 140 years”.
But Direct Wines said the complexity would be “crippling” for the trade.
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