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An 80% tax on spirits — and the federal government wants more?

By: Jan Westcott, President & CEO of Spirits Canada Finance Minister Morneau’s new “escalator” tax on alcohol, set to increase automatically on April first each year, is unwarranted, punitive for consumers, and deadly for the Canadian spirits industry.  For 200 years, Canadian distillers have proudly produced world-class spirits including gin,
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