Canada: Big Alcohol Derailed Planned Alcohol Tax Increase While New Report Details High Alcohol Harm and Economic Costs

Posted April 03 2023 AB InBev, Affordability, Alcohol Harm, Alcohol Industry Lobbyism, Alcohol Policy, Alcohol Taxation, Bacardi, Beam Suntory, BigAlcoholExposed, Campari, Crime, Diageo, Economic Costs, Economic Harm, Evidence, Healthcare, Inflation, Lobbying, MolsonCoors, News, Pernod Ricard, Productivity, Public Health

Big Alcohol managed to pressure the Canadian government into giving up on a much needed alcohol tax increase.
The federal alcohol duty was set to increase by 6% but bowing down to alcohol industry pressure the government decided to cap it at 2%. This decision is controversial given widespread, heavy alcohol harm that hurts people, families and Canada’s economy.

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