No real news for us on here, but dont you hate the Supermarket replies at the bottom.

http://www.chinchinjobs.com/news/Articl ... 621828#%21

Anyone have a 20p bottle on their wine rack ??

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Thanks for posting that Oz Clarke article Richard.

A good reminder of the tax numbers and logistics.

What is the wholesale cost of a glass bottle and the printed label, labels ?

For the average at a fiver, the producer is at the bottom of the pile, and the taxman is on the top !

I don't knowingly have a 20p bottle in my cellar, I do knowingly have some personal imports (tax paid in France) in wine boxes.

I agree with the minimum price for alcohol to subsidise initial and monitored hospital treatment for addiction, if a small element of the tax take was ring fenced, but that is another matter.

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Duncan

I have never understood why tobacco, petrol and booze attract such massive amounts of tax.
At the pump, with supplier and distributor happy, a litre would be about 50p. With normal vat that becomes 60p. Instead, however there is another 70p of 'duty' making a total of 80p tax on a product costing 50p. I.e. 160% tax.

After the report and the banter with Watchdog’s presenter, they showed us how much we spend on the actual wine (after tax, logistics and the supermarkets cut) as you spend a little more at the counter:

Spend £5 get only 20p worth of plonk

Spend £7.50 get £1.66 worth of wine

Spend £10 get £3.13 worth of vino (15 x as much as the £5 plonk)

Spend £15 get £6.04 worth of nectar (30 x more than the £5 stuff)

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