Taxation

• Excise Duty and Customs Duty
• Excise duty rates for wines and spirits
• Share of tax in average retail price (still wine and spirits)
• WSTA Budget submissions to the Treasury

UK Wine & Spirit Industry key facts: 

• Consumer expenditure on Alcoholic Drinks is about £42.6 billion
• Consumer expenditure is £18.8 billion on beer, £15.4 billion on wine and £8.3 billion on spirits
• UK excise duty is £1.61 on a bottle of still wine (75cl), £2.06 on a bottle of Sparkling wine (75cl) and £5.94 on a bottle of spirit (70cl at 37.5% abv) 
• The UK alcoholic drinks industry contributes 2% of the UK’s total output (£28.6billion). It paid nearly £15 billion in excise duty and VAT in 2007/08. 
• The UK per capita consumption is 27.9 litres on wine, 2.2 litres on spirits (@100% alcohol) and 106.4 litres on beer
• The UK alcohol industry directly employs more than 650,000 people in the production and retailing of alcohol and supports a further 1.1 million jobs in the wider economy
  

(sources: ONS, HMRC, 2009 Budget submission, DPB 06, Wine Merchants report 2009)

Alcohol consumption

• Key facts on alcohol consumption

Import Statistics for wines and spirits (customs clearances)

• Monthly Statistics datasheets