

This would help simplify the alcohol duty system. Products of the same strength should face the same rate of duty and duty should be a function of the pure alcohol content of drinks, rather than the volume of the final product. Levelling the playing field across same-strength products.AB InBev has also reduced the strength of more mainstream brands of beer – including Stella Artois, Budweiser and Becks – as a means of reducing costs associated with alcohol duty. Carlsberg reduced the strength of its low strength lager, Skol, from 3% to 2.8% ABV, in response to the introduction of a new lower-rate duty band for low strength beers. Introducing a duty strength escalator, to focus alcohol duty on the higher strength products disproportionately consumed by heavy drinkers, and create stronger incentives to produce lower strength products.There is at least tentative evidence that alcohol producers respond to duty changes, by reformulating products.To better focus alcohol taxation on where health and other social harms are greatest, this report sets out five recommendations for a revised alcohol duty system: This includes consideration of alcohol duty reforms that could be implemented following Brexit. ends with a woman who realizes she can be a winner.This report explores the case for reforming alcohol duty in the United Kingdom, and the principles which should underpin a new, improved alcohol duty regime. What starts off as a woman who doesn’t believe in herself. It’s nice to follow a main female character who has insecurities and openly talks about them in the prose. I love all of Denise’s books, but I found Morgan especially relatable. I absolutely loved the banter between Morgan and Riggs, and I was feverishly turning the pages to find out how this would resolve. I thoroughly enjoyed this novella, and I look forward to Denise’s next novel! ends with a woman who realizes she can be a winner. And, lest she forget, Denise also lives with too many to count characters inside her head, who will eventually have their stories told.įor more about Denise visit her website at: Connect with Denise: Home is in the Pacific Northwest where she lives with six Siberian Huskies and a husband (BW) who has the patience and tolerance of a saint. She has more purses than days in the month, an obsession with colored ink pens, and a slightly unhealthy bracelet habit. If she couldn't be a writer, she'd be a singer in a classic rock band. She likes to write about sassy women and semi-flawed alpha-esque men (hard on the outside and just a little soft on the inside.) Denise’s female characters always have strong friendships, potty mouths, and like to drink-a lot.ĭenise is loyal to a fault, a bit too sarcastic, blindingly optimistic, and pretty freakin’ happy with life overall. And to this day, escaping into a book is her go-to activity before anything else. Denise has been reading since before she could talk.
