MEDIA RELEASE
July 26, 2013
With reports suggesting the Government’s Expenditure Review Committee will again recommend an increase in tobacco excise to plug the budget hole, the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) has reinforced the negative impacts that the seemingly endless string of tax hikes are having on small businesses.
AACS CEO Jeff Rogut said raising tobacco excise has become a default answer to filling budget shortfalls and that it not only represents short sighted, lazy and uninspired economic management, it’s also having zero impact on improving health outcomes.
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