Three Counties Cider and Perry Association - 30th April 2007
3CCPA Committee Proposal
The committee of the 3CCPA met on Monday 23rd April 2007 to discuss
the issue and consider a formal response to the NACM and formulate a
consensus lobbying position. As a result of the discussions held it
is proposed that - if there is a plan by the EU to remove the current
exemption - a sliding duty scale is put into place instead, with the
first 70 hI (Ca. 1500 gals) converted into a special band of zero
rate cider duty available to all cider makers. Thereafter, as an
encouragement to small rural-based businesses to grow and develop,
increasing levels of duty would be paid on increasing volumes up to
an upper limit of 700hl (Ca. 15,000 gals), after which the full level of
duty would be payable,
In principle, this would be similar to the sliding scale of duty
available to beer brewers currently operating in the UK and other
European Member States and would provide a real encouragement to
rural business, farm diversification and artisan and craft cider makers.
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