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  Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - 2. Beer (rate of duty)
  
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  <p>The Aye voters passed the following motion:</p>
  
  <blockquote><i>"That provision may be made increasing the rate of duty set out in <a href="http://http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1979/cukpga_19790004_en_6#pt3-pb1-l1g34">section 36(1) of the Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979</a>."</i></blockquote> 
  
  <p>Looking at <a href="http://http://archive.treasury.gov.uk/budget/1998/fbill/clauses.pdf">clause 1 of the Finance Bill 1998</a> (scroll down to page 1) it would seem that the rate of duty on beer was being increased from Â£11.14 to Â£11.50.</p> 
   
  
  
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