Wine export demand shocks and wine tax reform in Australia: Regional consequences using an economy-wide approach

Kym Anderson, Ernesto Valenzuela and Glyn Wittwer

No 2010-02, Wine Economics Research Centre Working Papers from University of Adelaide, Wine Economics Research Centre

Abstract: We provide economy-wide modeling results of the national and regional implications of two current challenges facing the Australian wine industry: a decline in export demand for premium wines, and a possible change in the tax on domestic wine sales following the Henry Review of Taxation. The demand shock causes regional GDP to fall in the cool and warm wine regions but not in the hot wine regions unless the shock is large. A change from the current ad valorem tax to a similarly low volumetric tax on domestic wine sales causes regional GDP to rise in the cool and warm wine regions, partly offsetting its fall due to the export demand shock; but GDP in the hot wine regions would fall substantially. The switch to a volumetric tax as high as the standard beer rate would raise tax revenue and lower domestic wine consumption by more than one-third, but would induce a one-third decrease in production of non-premium wine as its consumer price would rise by at least three-quarters (while the average price of super premium wines would change very little), hence exacerbating the difference in effects of a tax reform on hot versus warm and cool wine regions' GDP.

Keywords: Wine export demand; Wine consumer taxation; Regional economy-wide modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D58 F18 H22 Q18 R13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2010-02
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