Excise Taxes on Wines, Beers and Spirits: An Updated International Comparison

Kym Anderson

Chapter 19 in The International Economics of Wine, 2019, pp 461-477 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Australia’s rate of wine consumer taxation was shown by Berger and Anderson (1999) to be high by OECD standards in the late 1990s, and especially by the standards of significant wine producing/exporting countries. That was also true when those numbers were updated to 2008 by Anderson (2010). Australia’s type of wine tax is unusual in being ad valorem (a percentage of the wholesale price) rather than specific (in cents per litre of alcohol), so the comparison depends on what price level is the focus of attention…

Keywords: Wine Globalization; Australia's Wine Internationalization; Wine Markets in Asia; Wine Price Distortions; Modelling Global Wine Markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L66 O13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Working Paper: Excise Taxes on Wines, Beers and Spirits: An Updated International Comparison (2014)
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