KGB for cheaper beer
Thank heavens, they ain’t the KGB. They are only beer lovers who got together earlier this year to found the Campaign for Good Beer (KGB), Austria’s equivalent to CAMRA, the UK’s Campaign for Real Ale. Prior to the General Elections held in November, the KGB launched a campaign to reduce the excise on beer to nil. The campaigners argued that it was grossly unfair that excise was levied on beer but not on wine. In good Austrian plain-speaking fashion, politicians have always maintained that the only reason excise was claimed on beer was that it was easier to collect than any form of excise on wine. The campaigners held that argument against them, saying that if this was the only reason for the tax’s existence, the tax had to go. And the sooner the better. The ÖVP won the elections..
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