Alberta Scraps Brewery Fee Hike

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Alberta has ditched a new fee schedule for local breweries that would have seen the province’s oldest beer maker pay significantly more in taxes.

The schedule was introduced in February and it substantially lowered the production threshold breweries needed to hit before they had to pay higher fees to the government.

Calgary -based Big Rock Brewery , founded in 1985 , didn’t fall under the 99 per cent , and the company calculated it was going to pay $1.4 million more every year.

Alberta replaced the fee system as of June 1 in favour of a schedule of more gradual increases.

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