Beer, wine and spirits are all treated differently under Australia’s ‘patchwork’ of alcohol taxes – and public health experts say the system needs an overhaul
Australians can pay as much as 20 times more alcohol tax on a shot of gin as they do on a standard drink of wine. And while the wine tax rate is the same as it was two decades ago, the excise on beer and spirits has risen more than 17% since the beginning of the pandemic.in more than a decade.
Cask wine has the lowest tax per standard drink, while spirits like gin and pre-mixed spirit drinks pay the highest tax per standard drink But wine has not been following the same trend – it has been roughly flat over the past decade, which is at least partially explained by “Graph showing rise in cost of beer and spirits tracking roughly with inflation, while the cost of wine has stayed mostly flat over the past decade.World Health Organization
The 2010 Henry Tax review recommended Australia’s tax system be replaced by a flat tax based on alcohol content, which is an approach taken by many other countries and
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