LETTER: Government thirsty for beer tax dollars

AUGUST heralds the Australian Tax Office’s six-monthly automatic ratcheting up of beer excise.Beer drinkers are consuming moderate levels of alcohol compared to other beverages but doing a disproportionate amount of the heavy-lifting in filling government coffers.The latest 2016-17 data on beer and taxes is sobering. Most people are not aware that they are slugged three times by […]