Saku: Equal to the Excise Tax Would Raise The Price of Beer by Half

"I do not understand why no one wants to show that Estonian consumers are stupid and rich? Not! Our people know how to calculate and make sustainable choices, "said Saku Brewery Chairman Margus Kastein. "Speculating equated with the idea of ??hard alcohol and beer excise tax, we reach a situation where a bottle of cheap vodka cost as much as three beers. This would affect consumption as a very dangerous level. "

Saku Original price of a bottle of vodka equal increase of nearly 45% excise duty on beer and spirits, for example, 75% of the price of the Taurus.

 

Kasteini said is untrue allegation circulated in the media yesterday that one level of vodka and a bottle of beer excise twists Saku Original price of 24 cents. "There has been a significant miscalculation. Apart from the value-added tax and trade mark behind. The actual price increase would be nearly 40 cents - more than a third of the current price of a beer bottle. "

 

Estonia's share of strong alcohol consumption in Europe in terms of absolute priority. Institute forms the basis of 2012 statistics, 41% of adults in spirits consumption of absolute alcohol. Finns have strong alcohol at the Neighbors attended by approximately 28%. Convergence of the wine excise duties on beer duty, in turn, would increase the consumption of strong alcohol.