#292 UK Wine Tax Calculator

It isn't a swish, fancy app.  Nor is it one that will give you endless fun, but what the UK Wine Tax Calculator does do, simply and effectively, is tell you how much you are giving the Chancellor of the Exchequer every time you buy a bottle of wine.

Entering the bottle price and alcohol content, you can see that the cheapest wine on Tesco's website, the 2006 Silver Rock Chardonnay at £3.12 per bottle is 85.9% tax and duty!  Just think what rubbish might lie underneath the cork!  This app is a tool, nothing more or less, and it does the job perfectly well.  To add a bit of fun, it could have included other countries or states as an option to compare how much we are horrifically taxed in comparison to our EU neighbours, but that might come later.  In the meantime, it is a handy little tool.

Comments

richardross said…
Thanks, Peter, for the review. As you suggest, comparing different countries' tax levels is one of the extras we are working on ... making tax fun is certainly a challenge!
Richard@appetise.co.uk
Anonymous said…
Have you heard of Tax Buster, the TaxPayers' Alliance app that calculates all the taxes you pay when you buy any product (including wine!)

Take a look at www.tpaTaxBuster.co.uk for more info...
form 2290 said…
Thanks for the app anonymous. I'm looking for similar calculators to compute for my HVUT.
Unknown said…
What a great app you got there. I hope there will be a heavy vehicle use tax calculator app for android and apple devices. That app will be very useful for me if someone will share it to us.
Bret Saunders said…
Whoa! This sounds like an interesting app. I'm sure my friends that are working in accounting firms in sydney would find this a riot! They never ran out of tax jokes every time we have a drinking session, so I'm sure they will have tons of fun using this.
Calvin Esdaile said…
Yeah, it is definitely interesting. Though when I think about it, I may not want to know how much I give through taxes.