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Don’t Tax Our Wine Irish Cry as Budget Finds Austerity Threshold
The Corkscrew Wine Merchants in Dublin did a week’s trade in one afternoon yesterday as shoppers made sure they beat a surprise increase in tax on alcohol. Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan said he would raise the levy on a bottle of wine by 1 euro ($1.30), or about 40 percent, at midnight, flocking people to stores before prices rose. At Corkscrew, just off Grafton Street in the city center, customers left clutching crates of bottles. “It’s been crazy, extremely busy, it hasn’t stopped,” said Paul Foley, co-owner of Corkscrew, who said he took one order alone for about 8,500 euros. “A lot of ... (full story)