Alcohol Excise Australia
An $11 schooner in Melbourne sends $1.80 to Canberra. Australia taxes alcohol content, not volume. Draught pays less than packaged. Mid-strength beer exists only because the excise code rewards it. The tax schedule wrote the menu.
an $11 schooner of beer in a Melbourne pub, sends close to $1.80 in tax to Canberra. The tax is invisible to the drinker, but baked into every pour. Australia runs one of the most aggressive alcohol excise regimes in the developed world. Federal tax on beer, spirits and wine generates roughly $7 billion a year. The system taxes alcohol content, not volume. Beer excise is charged per liter of pure alcohol inside the container. Full strength draft. Beer pays $40.07 per liter of alcohol. Packaged beer pays $61.32. Spirits pay $103.89, the highest rate of any category. Draft on tap pays less than packaged rewarding public and sales. Low strength beer below 3.5%, pays lower still, which is why mid-strength lagers like XXX, Gold and Carlton mid exist at all.
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