Not sure how you got that from the article.
It says they are increasing the tax bands from 1 to 30 with an increase of 2p for every 0.1% increase in strength.
Either way, it is still the gift that keeps on taking if it is adding 40p on a bottle of wine.
The odd thing is that I presume the adjustments have a health rationale, as a revenue rausing one, behind them but I can't recall this having been made clear as a move from the govt, unlike the moves on smoking age.
I have to admit to being completely confused as to this appearing to apply only to wine in terms of the 'strength' bsnds but not to beer, or spirits. I suppose spirits are mainly a standard 40% but there is variation.
I can see that the removal of the special category of fizzy stuff is a simplification but the rest of it appears a bit of a mess.
ETA I am also baffled by the approach in that other than the simplification on the fizz it doesn't seem very Tory way of doing things. The .1% increments is incredibly fiddly. Perhaps they are trying to 'boil a frog'.
