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What Are The Options? Pricing And Taxation Policy Reforms To Redress Excessive Alcohol Consumption And Related Harms In Australia, Natacha Carragher, Jenny Chalmers
What Are The Options? Pricing And Taxation Policy Reforms To Redress Excessive Alcohol Consumption And Related Harms In Australia, Natacha Carragher, Jenny Chalmers
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
Increasing community and political concern about excessive alcohol consumption and related harms in Australia has prompted calls for the introduction of tighter regulatory controls. From an evidence-based, research perspective, measures which increase alcohol prices and taxes, in particular, are considered most effective for reducing alcohol consumption and related harms. Accordingly, this report presents a review of pricing and taxation policy levers that have been considered and/or implemented nationally
and internationally. These policies include: alcohol taxation and differential price by beverage; special/additional taxation on alcopops; minimum pricing; and bans on price discounts and promotions. Industry response to these policy initiatives is …