Yesterday afternoon, the Australian Tax Office provided advice to members of the Alcohol Stakeholder Group regarding changes to alcohol excise from 1 August (see below).

New rates published on the ATO website confirm that spirits and RTD excise rates will increase by 2.2% from 1 August 2023 to:

The Shout has recently covered the story and published our media release.

RESOURCE HANDBOOK FOR DISTILLERS

A detailed resource handbook can be found below, to equip you with tools to enable us to maintain pressure on the government to consider our request for a freeze.Please click the following links for the various materials.

RESOURCES HANDBOOK 
(pdf that includes all material and graphics)

LETTER TO YOUR MP TEMPLATE
(word doc)

DRINKS COMPARISON GRAPHIC

INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON GRAPHIC