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Comment on Prospect of £5 pint leaves bitter taste for some pubgoers
Lemmist@lemm.ee 4 weeks agoSo the price is just around twice as much? Hm. It looks like you have seriously high beer prices overall, not just pubs trying to set some crazy coefficients.
DampSquid@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
snaprails@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
A sizeable chunk of the price of a pint in a pub is taxes. Excise Duty + VAT - the VAT being applied after the Excise Duty, effectively taxing the tax. In addition many pubs are owned by “pub cos”, who force the tenants to buy from prescribed suppliers at inflated prices. The pub cos are really property companies, they care not if this means the pub business fails, they’ll just close and redevelop the building/site as something else. Like many other 🇬🇧 problems this has its roots in Thatcherism.