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Vote Quint!

Surely the states would be better off lowering duty, then more people would drink more thus raising taxes more. We can deal with the problems of alcohol dependency, scirrhosis of the liver, domestic violence and mass brawls in town with the new taxes!

Mr Crowther is only interested in profit and not the long term damage his product does to the community and island.

Let him clear up the p!ss, blood and sick on a Sunday morning, repair the broken windows and homes. Why not reduce the duty but raise the tax rate for pub groups to 75% of profits?

For years Dave Le Quesne has been defending the out of line rises of the cost of a pint vs duty with ‘importation’ costs, dsitribution costs, price of barley/wheat etc… 2P duty does not equal 5p on a pint.. fleecing us as usual.

Stop closing local pubs and forcing us into your little garrishly lit toilets of bars, all halogen lamps and chrome, alcopops and ‘shots’ and you may get more punters through the door.

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Sean

Hmm, strip away the duty and let’s see the real story. While it could be argued that it is more expensive to run a business in Jersey, I am sure we will find that the margins being made in Jersey by the pubs is significantly higher than in the UK and especially on locally brewed ales.

The problem is that when you have an asset stripped business owned by venture capitalists, long term viability is sacrificed for short term profitability and this is exactly the case here.

Sorry Liberation Group, but you need to cut your margins. Not every rise need be passed on to the consumer. Perhaps volumes would not have declined so much if you had taken this approach?

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s

Can anyone tell me what the duty levels are in Jersey compared to the UK. Every time I look at the Duty here I,m almost sure its less than the UK (unless I,m taking in to consideration VAT, which is still a Tax).
Mr. Crowther doesn,t appear to me to running a competitive industry, or his Tennants aren,t. Profit margins on booze here compared to the UK are huge. I had a pint of Lager in my home town last week, in a Sports Bar, @ £2.10 – and they have 20% VAT there. Liberation Group and their Manager.s / Tennants are making a living on two nights trading per week. If they can do that, which it appears they can or pubs would be closing all over the place in Jersey, then that must surely be down to inflated profits!

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GD

Shouldn’t keep letting hospoitality businesses become more flats…Then in the old days of more tourists the booze was cheaper and the states made more money.

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