Budget 2021: Beer and fuel duty 'set to be frozen' as UK emerges from lockdown
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mirror.co.ukBeer and fuel duty are both tipped to be frozen in Wednesday's Budget as Britain emerges from the Covid pandemic. Reports claim the Chancellor will hold the rates as they are - and will instead plot a "stealth" tax raid on workers by freezing income tax allowances for three years.
Brits could also pay in other ways as Mr Sunak makes clear he must account for the £280bn cost of dealing with the pandemic.
Beer duty has been frozen or cut each year since 2013 while a freeze on fuel duty this year would be the 11th in a row. Other alcohol duties have risen in that time.
Last year raising beer duty - currently around 54p a pint - with inflation would have only added 1p to the cost of a pint in the pub.
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