Wine drinker in Ireland? We pay the highest taxes in Europe!

Banjo String

Next time someone points out the amount of money Irish drinkers spend on the 'demon drink' , show them this.

Ireland’s wine taxes are the highest in Europe, a report reveals.

The report, published by the Irish Wine Association, also shows a decrease of wine sales of almost 10% last year.

The IWA that represents wine importers and distributors in Ireland has warned that excise is the number one threat to the wine industry.

Its annual Wine Market Review for 2013 shows an 8.2% drop in wine sales over the previous year.

A graphic published in the report shows Ireland has the highest taxes on wine in the EU, at €3.48 on a 750ml bottle.

Britain has the second highest tax on wine, at €2.68, followed by Finland at €2.77.

However, 15 countries pay no tax on wine, including Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Spain, and Portugal.

The report points out Spanish tourists pay almost twice the price for wine in Irish restaurants than they do at home.

The IWA says last year’s excise increases must be reversed because they were causing significant cash-flow problems for small businesses and putting thousands of jobs at risk.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/irish-drinkers-pay-highest-taxes-on-wine-in-europe-288666.html

Yet the vintners want us to pay more in the offies as it's 'too cheap'?

The VFI are trolling the wine drinkers!

Collie D

Man up and get a pint of plain into ya

Banjo String

Meh, I'm a sweet sherry man.

MonkeyTennis

I like a glass of port in the afternoon, its for me nerves.

Tabnabs

Yeah, report fail. Norway has the highest excise in both Europe and the world.

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oecd.org%2Fctp%2Ftax-policy%2FTable%25205.2%2520Taxation%2520of%2520wine.xls&ei=vEclVJmYC4Gf7gbwmYGoAg&usg=AFQjCNF--SJLvOovm6xStkB2p3VQAgwnAw&sig2=wy1CoO7TqDpW3epreQc5dw

Sir Arthur Daley

The tax is just on the red wine.

GoddardNew

Its a Good thing I don't Drink wine ,RIP-Off Ireland.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

A large number of restaurants have survived the recession because of wine sales, many sell their food at almost cost price and rely on customers drinking wine to make a profit.

Continuously raising excise on wine is a false economy in my opinion.

keno-daytrader

700ml Bottle of Jameson 29.99 euro in most shops here.

19.99 euros in Spar in Austria and no it wasnt on special.

suicide_circus

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

I like a glass of port in the afternoon, its for me nerves.

Port is an angry type of drunk

suicide_circus

keno-daytrader wrote: »

700ml Bottle of Jameson 29.99 euro in most shops here.

19.99 euros in Spar in Austria and no it wasnt on special.

It's all tax, who do you think pays for the highest paid politicians in europe? Whores will have their trinkets.

Chips Lovell

The Vintners are having a laugh. Who's going to say "Oh, the wine in the offie is gotten really expensive. I know, I'll go and drink wine in the pub instead, where it's even more expensive".

ScumLord

The report, published by the Irish Wine Association, also shows a decrease of wine sales of almost 10% last year.

That could be me, I've been drinking Ales almost exclusively for the past year, haven't gone near the wine as much.

The IWA that represents wine importers and distributors in Ireland has warned that excise is the number one threat to the wine industry.

Since when is importing stuff considered an industry?

DLMA23

keno-daytrader wrote: »

700ml Bottle of Jameson 29.99 euro in most shops here.

19.99 euros in Spar in Austria and no it wasnt on special.

€19.99 for a litre of 12 year old Jameson in Lanzarote :eek:

animaal

Now now, you lot behave. Don't you know we live in a "low tax economy".

There's a country somewhere that has higher alcohol taxes than we have. And there's another country that has higher VRT than we do. And there may even be a country where the marginal rate of income tax at 35k is more than 52%.

You see, we have it good here. So back to work, enough of that "thinking" lark. Our betters have to be kept in the style to which we've made them accustomed.

Dr_Colossus

As high as the excise duty is on wine here why is it double again on sparkling wine?
This country is all about extracting the euro either from tax, fees, penalties and charges of every hue and with multiples of each all along the product cycle.

MonkeyTennis

suicide_circus wrote: »

Port is an angry type of drunk

I only get angry when I dont have any. You know sitting, quietly by the fire contemplating.

conorhal

Tabnabs wrote: »

Yeah, report fail. Norway has the highest excise in both Europe and the world.

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oecd.org%2Fctp%2Ftax-policy%2FTable%25205.2%2520Taxation%2520of%2520wine.xls&ei=vEclVJmYC4Gf7gbwmYGoAg&usg=AFQjCNF--SJLvOovm6xStkB2p3VQAgwnAw&sig2=wy1CoO7TqDpW3epreQc5dw

And they're all a miserable bunch of bastards that sit at home drinking. We should have cheaper booze in pubs and maintain our bon homme or the nanny state with it's punnative 'lifestyle taxes' will leave us like the Finns, which reminds me of an old joke...

How can you tell when you're talking to a Finnish extrovert? He looks at your shoes.

Tabnabs

conorhal wrote: »

And they're all a miserable bunch of bastards that sit at home drinking. We should have cheaper booze in pubs and maintain our bon homme or the nanny state with it's punnative 'lifestyle taxes' will leave us like the Finns, which reminds me of an old joke...

How can you tell when you're talking to a Finnish extrovert? He looks at your shoes.

Yay, more sweeping generalisations that smell of bull****

http://www.happyplanetindex.org/data/

conorhal

Tabnabs wrote: »

Yay, more sweeping generalisations that smell of bull****

http://www.happyplanetindex.org/data/

Meh, so like the Irish (who are also consistantly the happiest bunch on earth) they too reply 'grand' in every attitudinal survey.
The joke is a Finnish joke told to me my a Finn, so I'd imagine that it has something to say about the national character.

suicide_circus

DLMA23 wrote: »

€19.99 for a litre of 12 year old Jameson in Lanzarote :eek:

When was this? That's below cost now.

Chips Lovell

Anecdotal evidence trumps statistics any day.

conorhal

Oscar Gateaux wrote: »

Anecdotal evidence trumps statistics any day.

Statistics are just lies and damn lies, if you really want to know something about a culture look at their art, literature and the jokes they tell about each other.
All of which is besides the point that I was making, if you kill the pub and radically change the drinking culture away from pints and towards discount lidil top shelf liquor drunk at home you won't do society any favours.

keno-daytrader

suicide_circus wrote: »

When was this? That's below cost now.

Last January 2014.

I go every year and Jameson is always about 10 euros cheaper in Austria.

Its Bizarre.

jester77

keno-daytrader wrote: »

700ml Bottle of Jameson 29.99 euro in most shops here.

19.99 euros in Spar in Austria and no it wasnt on special.

€16 in my local supermarket here for the 700ml bottle.

suicide_circus

keno-daytrader wrote: »

Last January 2014.

I go every year and Jameson is always about 10 euros cheaper in Austria.

Its Bizarre.

I was referring to the below post, which is why I quoted it

DLMA23 wrote: »

€19.99 for a litre of 12 year old Jameson in Lanzarote :eek:

Menas

Tabnabs wrote: »

Yeah, report fail. Norway has the highest excise in both Europe and the world.

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oecd.org%2Fctp%2Ftax-policy%2FTable%25205.2%2520Taxation%2520of%2520wine.xls&ei=vEclVJmYC4Gf7gbwmYGoAg&usg=AFQjCNF--SJLvOovm6xStkB2p3VQAgwnAw&sig2=wy1CoO7TqDpW3epreQc5dw

The headline and title of this thread states 'Europe'...but when you read the report it is referring to the 'EU'. And of course norway is not in the EU.

Lazy journalist and OP did not differentiate!

DLMA23

suicide_circus wrote: »

When was this? That's below cost now.

September 2013, Puerto del Carmen, I grabbed a bottle for myself & one for the brother

My OH brought one back recently, she paid €23.99 for it & complained that it had gone up €5 since last year :pac: