Since it was so widely consumed, beer has made the perfect target for taxation for governments throughout the centuries. But the way Australia taxes beer has caused prices to soar.
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It may not be popular, but an increase in the cost of alcohol would make us drink less and consume fewer kilojoules.
When former treasury head Ken Henry completed a review of alcohol tax arrangements in 2009 he described them as “contradictory” and “incoherent”. Earlier, former treasurer Peter Costello had been more…
Many Australians believe that there isn’t much we can do about our dangerous levels of alcohol consumption. But the real difficulty is that we don’t know how to get effective prevention policies through…
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