How Australia’s tobacco excise has led to a black market

How Australia’s tobacco excise has led to a black market

In this article, Adam Creighton contextualises and disseminates the IPA’s research on Australia’s taxation system. Australia has long been known as the lucky country, but the stupid country is becoming a more accurate description. With such a rich array of incriminating evidence, it’s hard to know where to start, but the collapse in tobacco excise, and the destructive response to it, must stand as a classic example. A government that’s mulling a…