'I'm Down $2 Million': How the Illicit Tobacco Market Is Gutting Grocers

'I'm down $2 million': how the illicit tobacco market is gutting grocers

IGA owners in Launceston and Ulverstone say a only a cut in the excise tax can help deflate the massive market in illicit tobacco.

Some Sense at Last? Coalition Proposes 80% Tobacco Tax Cut and Legal Vapes to Break Australia’s Black Market

Australia’s escalating illicit tobacco crisis has pushed a once politically unthinkable idea into mainstream debate: what if extremely high cigarette taxes and restrictions on safer nicotine alternatives are now strengthening the black market they were supposed to suppress? The federal Coalition has (finally) proposed an extraordinary overhaul of Australian nicotine policy, combining an 80% reduction […]