date:Nov 06, 2012
customers.
But Richard Yung, a Socialist senator, argues that the crucial thing is to reduce public debt by 30bn euros next year, and the beer tax is just a small part of this.
At the moment, taxes on beer are low in France compared with other countries so we thought, why not? he said.
We have been careful to make sure it will be big beer factories that are affected, not small ones.
Tough times
Simon Spillane, a senior adviser for the Brewers of Europe organisation, says the added cost to