Secret checks prompt fears taxes will be hiked on booze and cigarettes
But the tax burden could rise still higher after the new probe to see just how much shoppers are prepared to pay for a pint and a fag.
The ONS’s ethics board has given approval for Deloitte to study “household consumption for alcohol and tobacco products each year from 2008 to 2016”, taken from the Living Costs and Food Survey. The researchers will take into account how spending varies by shoppers’ “income, socioeconomic group, household size, and region”.
They will then try to “identify trends in consumption, which will be compared to trends in tax revenues raised” – to see if people drink and smoke less when taxes go up, or if they are prepared to swallow the added costs. The ONS said: “This evidence will be used to form conclusions about which ‘policy levers’ are available to the UK government.WIDDY'S WORK ROWTory chiefs warn MPs they'll be kicked out if they back Nigel FarageLabour's council tax rise plan to cost families an extra £1,500-a-year“For example, whether increased taxes on alcohol and tobacco products would result in increased tax income and/or decreased public consumption.
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