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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Increased alcohol tax proposed


21 June 2007
A governmet committee has proposed that the tax on alcohol should be increased by 10 per cent. Chocolate, on the other hand, would become cheaper.





The so-called "Surtax-committee" will present its proposals on Friday, but it is already clear that it has also discussed to do away with the so-called tax-free sales of alcohol at airports and on ferries to the continent.

The brewery-industry is not surprisingly strongly opposed to increased taxes on alcohol.

- An increase of the surtax on alcohol will lead to increased cross-border trade and to the death of the brewery industry in Norway, says CEO of Hansa Borg Breweries, Lars Midtgaard.

(NRK)

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