date:Mar 18, 2013
y Gallagher, communications manager for the Scotch Whisky Association, said: The duty escalator has meant an increase in duty every year for the past five years.
This increases the pressure on ordinary people at a time when household budgets are already under pressure.
It is not good for the Scotch whisky industry, which employs 10,000 people in Scotland directly and supports 35,000 jobs across the UK as a whole and is worth 4.2bn a year to the economy.
We think the duty escalator needs to be