SIBA Chief Executive James Calder this week wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for greater support for independent breweries across the UK, many of whom are facing closure as beer sales fall by 82% as a result of COVID-19 lockdown measures and the closing of pubs. You can read the letter text below in full, or […]
The Government has less than 24 hours left to defer this month’s beer duty payments amid concerns that the time to pay arrangements are not working for many brewers. The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has been calling on the Treasury to suspend beer duty payments due on 25 April and for the next quarter to […]
Results released today from a survey of small independent breweries across the UK show on average beer sales are down by 82% since the outbreak of Covid-19, with many businesses struggling to survive. 8 out of 10 brewers do not believe the Government is doing enough to support them with more than half (54%) of […]
SIBA has, along with a broad range of drinks industry bodies, co-signed a letter to the Treasury asking for “a deferment of excise duty payments required for a period of at least 3 months as a matter of urgency.” You can read the letter in full here.