How much tax is there on a pint of beer?

Question

I was just wondering cos I was drinking with the owner of the pub I was in last night I had to pay £2.60 a pint but he only had to pay £1.40 a pint so is that just the tax he was paying?

Also if you know could you tell me how much tax (£'s not %) there is on 20 cigarettes roughly.

I was at an all night store in London and had to pay £6.09 for 20 Lambert & Butler, pricey I know, but how much would they have been if there were no tax on them?

Answer 1

The duty on beer is worked out on the % of alcohol in the beer, so varies from beer to beer. It was around 35p on average last time I checked, but goes up by about 4% (inflation) every year.

Duty on cigarettes is 22% of the retail price (+ 9.68 pence per cigarette) so a total of £2.93 for a packet of 20 cigarettes at an average retail price of £4.25 per pack, which means that the duty is 69% of the price.

Answer 2

tax on a pint at £2.50 is about 70p the rest is to pay rent, bills, wages etc, everyone has a right to make some money.  

Answer 3

The owner has to pay same tax as you do. The difference in the price is caused because the owner pays everything in his providers market prices. When you byu a lot of the same staff from a provider you get a lower price but you sell them the regular price. As for the cigarettes I can't really help you, here in Greece the tax for liquor and cigarettes is 19% of the price.