Sentence examples for cutting duty from inspiring English sources

As chancellor, in 2002 he introduced progressive beer duty, encouraging small producers by cutting duty rates in half for those making between 5,000 and 30,000 hectolitres a year.Small brewers often lack access to distribution networks and expensive bottling plants, so resort to supplying local pubs.

But Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, said: "It's deplorable to suggest depriving the public purse by cutting duty at a time when revenue from alcohol sales does not cover even half the cost of alcohol-related harm to our society.

As well as cutting duty on beer and freezing duty on spirits and cider, the government is scrapping the alcohol duty escalator which saw automatic rises of 2% above inflation every year.

We're not going to let people say we're cutting duty because the Sun told us to or some truckers blocked the roads.

Cutting duty of beer by a penny a pint and freezing petrol duties for a further year.

Cutting duty on beer while increasing it on spirits punishes the UK spirits industry for its success in this harsh economic climate.

Given all that, India should dare to be generous, removing non-tariff barriers, cutting duties on Pakistani imports and making it easier to invest in India.

The Mexican government has also helped the maquiladoras by cutting duties on imported Asian components, ending the uncertainty that threatened to drive away many electronics companies.

Critics say the same could be achieved directly by cutting duties (as Mr Ahluwalia, to his credit, would like to do) and by persuading the Reserve Bank to sell back to the market some of the dollars it has bought in order to stem the strengthening of the rupee.That would also take the decision on how to spend the money away from the government.

If the deal is concluded, more than 200 tariff categories will be reduced to zero, cutting duties on high-tech devices from video game consoles to GPS devices.

The cheers started to rise, and by the time he came to cutting stamp duty, for a brief moment, the cheers peaked above the boos.