date:Apr 05, 2016
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) is calling on the Federal Government to apply heavier taxes to cheap alcohol including wine sold in casks.
Although the wine cask was invented in South Australia in the 1960s, the RACP says the current Australian taxation system is too easy on high-volume binge drinkers.
The current taxation policy, Wine Equalisation Tax (WET), applies the tax based on a rate where the more expensive a wine product is retailed for, the higher the tax.
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