Booze industry looks to Senate to axe automatic tax hikes from budget bill

Industry officials fear losing market share to foreign suppliers as a result of higher excise taxes.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau, seen here on budget day this March, does not appear open to suggestions that automatic annual increases in excise taxes on alcohol be dropped from the budget bill.
The Senate’s role as the Chamber of “sober second thought” is being counted on by the alcoholic beverages industry to save it from a provision in the budget that would see excise taxes on booze automatically increasing each year at the rate of inflation. It’s one of many aspects in Bill C...

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