Call for Tobacco Tax to Be Cut as Crims Control Market

Call for tobacco tax to be cut as crims control market

Australia's tax imposed on tobacco should be drastically slashed in a bid to disrupt the business model of organised crime, coalition politicians say.

Coalition MPs want to slash tobacco tax by up to 80 per cent to tackle crime

The Coalition’s tobacco taskforce argues black market cigarettes are now a matter of national security due to entrenched criminal-network supply.

Coalition backs 80pc cut to tobacco excise

The policy is a bid to break organised crime’s control of the lucrative black market for cigarettes.