Alcohol Duty

EDM number 595 in 2009-10, proposed by Angela C Smith on 13/01/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Taxation.

That this House notes that there are growing levels of alcohol fraud in the UK through the non-payment of alcohol duty which is costing the UK Exchequer significant sums in lost revenue; further notes that this fraud is having a severe detrimental impact on the economic viability of legitimate UK traders and having negative impacts on public health as consumers are being sold cheap alcohol from illicit sources; and calls on Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs to combat the growing scale of alcohol fraud in the UK, undertake robust enforcement action and implement stringent preventive measures to stop the continuation of the fraud.

This motion has been signed by a total of 51 MPs.