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Beer (Excise)

Volume 105: debated on Monday 22 April 1918

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Resolved,

8. That in addition to the duty of Excise now payable in respect of beer brewed in the United Kingdom, there shall on and after the twenty-third day of April nineteen hundred and eighteen, be charged the following duty (that is to say):—

£s.d.
For every thirty-six gallons of worts of a specific gravity of one thousand and fifty-five degrees, a duty of150

and so on in proportion for any difference in quality or gravity.

And it is declared that it is expedient in the, public interest that this Resolution shall have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913.