UKC

Seeing as the top 50 or so threads are about the bloody Scots and their independence vote i thought I'd ask the most important question of all.

Will an independent Scotland change the duty levies on whisky? At the moment Lagavulin is beyond my financial grasp and it's annoying.

In reply to pasbury:

I think you have the wrong end of the stick. If the Scots get independence the chancellor will be able to increase duty on Whiskey and not give a t**s about p***ing off the Scots

In reply to Fidman:


Could he do that? That would piss of the (rest of) Brits too, but we'd just drink welsh, irish, canadian, American, Japanese.. but I doubt you could selectively tax a very specific product like that, especially from within the EU which both almost certainly will be.

In reply to Fidman:

If the Scots get independence the chancellor will be able to increase duty on Whiskey and not give a t**s about p***ing off the Scots

Increasing duty on 'Whiskey' will have no effect on Scotland whatsoever.

In reply to FactorXXX:
>"Increasing duty on 'Whiskey' will have no effect on Scotland whatsoever."

Well it might increase whisky sales as the cross border smuggling trade takes off.

In reply to Fidman:


And watch the booze hypermarkets go up in Gretna and take *all* the duty.

Independent Scotland should probably have some carefully calibrated lower taxes on booze and tobacco. Just like the French do in Calais. Maybe even legalise cannabis.

In reply to FactorXXX:



It will if the English switch to Glen Okinawa or Gen Fujiyama Single Malts which are half the price and twice as good.....

In reply to Trangia:


If the English currently buy Whisky that is twice the price and only half as good as alternatives , they must be mad to be buying the Whisky in the first place. ( either way they are mostly all going to be foreign owned)

I think they should change now, and not wait for further duty. ( assuming that is true of course)?

In reply to JLS:



He was being a pedant. An 'e' was added to the word whisky rendering it undrinkable.