Big Alcohol Lobbies Against Alcohol Taxation

Big Alcohol is asking for special treatment by lobbying against alcohol taxation with the excuse of overcoming the COVID-19 setback. The alcohol industry lobby in Australia is pushing for a halt of automatic CPI-linked increases for alcohol for at least 12 months. It is multinational alcohol industry giants who are behind the lobby effort to undermine Australian alcohol taxation. And precedents from other countries show the perils to public health and well-being that comes from undermining the alcohol tax base…