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AMENDMENT OF THE LAW

It has done extremely well—so well, in fact, that it is generating £2.5 billion in revenue, contributing massively to the UK economy. The key thing is not the revenue for the UK economy that whisky generates from sales here, however. If the market and the industry are to grow, how can the Scotch whisky industry go to foreign regimes and say, ““Stop taxing us unfairly and disproportionately,”” if those regimes can say to the whisky companies, ““Why should we, if your own Government is discriminating against you in their handling of the duty regime in the UK?””