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If Ontario doesn’t speed up a review of alcohol taxes and eliminate some of them soon, craft breweries across the province could close before the market expands to convenience stores, the brewers’ association is warning.
Scott Simmons, president of Ontario Craft Brewers, said in submissions for the provincial spring budget that the group welcomes the recent announcement that sales of beer, wine and ready-to-drink cocktails will be expanded to convenience stores by 2026.
But if the current tax structure remains in place until then there may be fewer local breweries to take advantage of that, Simmons said.
“They’re just being stifled right now,” he told a legislative committee this week.
Continues cbc.ca
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