Nudging alcohol moderation via excise tax reform: The case of beer in Australia
| dc.contributor.author | Anderson, Kym | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-04T02:29:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-04T02:29:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Australia taxes alcohol consumption more than most other affluent economies. A switch to low-alcohol beer has been encouraged in Australia by it being subject to a lower rate of excise tax than regular beer, but no such incentive applies to packaged mid-strength beer. Would more or less alcohol be consumed if the tax rates for mid-strength beer were lowered, for example to those for low-strength beer? This study estimates changes in demand that could result from such a policy change. It finds that alcohol consumption from each of beer, wine and spirits could fall, but by little more than 1% in total | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0816-5181 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733771962 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University | |
| dc.rights | Author/s retain copyright | |
| dc.rights.license | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa | |
| dc.source | Working Papers in Trade and Development | |
| dc.subject | Alcohol taxation | |
| dc.subject | excise tax reform | |
| dc.subject | mid-strength beer | |
| dc.title | Nudging alcohol moderation via excise tax reform: The case of beer in Australia | |
| dc.type | Working/Technical Paper | |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dspace.entity.type | ANUArchivesItem | |
| local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 2025/11 | |
| local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 32 | |
| local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 1 | |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Crawford School of Public Policy | |
| local.type.status | Published Version |