Technical Paper 3:
Preventing Alcohol-related harm in Australia: a window of opportunity

4. Taxation and pricing

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Taxation

Australia’s Future Tax System Review Panel, ‘Australia’s Future Tax System: Consultation Paper’. 2009, Commonwealth of Australia: Canberra.

Australian Tax Office (ATO), ‘Australian Taxation Statistics 2006–07’. March 2009, Australian Taxation Office: Canberra.

Australian Tax Office (ATO), ‘Excise Tariff Working Pages Schedule (2 February 2009)’. March 2009, Australian Taxation Office: Canberra.

Diane Brown Consulting Pty Ltd. ‘What’s in a Word: what is meant by the term “volumetric” taxation’. May 2009.

Kmietowicz, Z. ‘MPs call for end to cheap alcohol promotions to reduce crime’, BMJ, vol. 337, 2008. p. a2499.

Makela, P.; Osterberg, E. (April 2009) Weakening of one more alcohol control pillar: a review of the effects of the alcohol tax cuts in Finland in 2004, Addiction 104:4, pp. 554–563.Top of page

Segal, David S,; Stockwell, Tim. (March 2009) Low alcohol alternatives: a promising strategy, International Journal of Drug Policy 20:2, pp. 183–187.

Skov, S. J. ‘Alcohol taxation policy in Australia: public health imperatives for action’. Medical Journal of Australia 16 March 2009. pp. 1–3.

Vandenberg, B., Livingston, M., & Hamilton, M. ‘Beyond cheap shots: reforming alcohol taxation in Australia’, Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 27, no. 6, Nov 2008. pp. 579–583.

Wagenaar, Alexander C.; Salois, Matthew J.; Komro, Kelli A. (February 2009) Effects of beverage alcohol price and tax levels on drinking: a meta-analysis of 1003 estimates from 112 studies, Addiction 104:2, pp. 179–190.

Price effects

Booth, A., Brennan, A., Meier, P. S., O’Reilly, D. T., Purshouse, R., Stockwell, T., Sutton, A, Taylor, K. B., Wilkinson, A., & Wong, R. (June 2008) Independent review of the effects of alcohol pricing and promotion: summary of evidence to accompany report on phase 1: systematic reviews, Sheffield: University of Sheffield.

Herttua, K., Makela, P., & Martikainen, P. ‘Changes in alcohol-related mortality and its socioeconomic differences after a large reduction in alcohol prices: a natural experiment based on register data’, American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 168, no. 10, 15 Nov 2008. pp. 1110–1118.Top of page

Herttua, K., Makela, P., Martikainen, P., & Siren, R. ‘The impact of a large reduction in the price of alcohol on area differences in interpersonal violence: a natural experiment based on aggregate data’, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, vol. 62, no. 11, Nov 2008. pp. 995–1001.

Jamison, J., & Myers, L. B. ‘Peer-group and price influence students drinking along with planned behaviour.[erratum appears in Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 Sep–Oct;43(5):608]’, Alcohol & Alcoholism, vol. 43, no. 4, Jul 2008. pp. 492–497.

Kmietowicz, Z. ‘Target cheap drinking as we did passive smoking, says chief medical officer’, BMJ, vol. 338, 2009. p. b1124.

McKee, M., Belcher, P., & Hervey, T. ‘Reducing harm from alcohol’, BMJ, vol. 338, 2009. p. b1191.

Rossow, I. ‘Alcohol consumption and discounting’. Addiction Research & Theory 2008,16:6,572–584.

Thombs, Dennis L.; O’Mara, Ryan; Dodd, Virginia J.; Hou, Wei; Merves, Michele L.; Weiler, Robert M.; Pokorny, Steven B.; Goldberger, Bruce A.; Reingle, Jennifer; Werch, Chudley (Chad) (March 2009) A field study of bar-sponsored drink specials and their associations with patron intoxication, Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 70:2, pp. 206–214.

Alcopops

Chikritzhs, T. N., Dietze, P. M., Allsop, S. J., Daube, M. M., Hall, W. D., & Kypri, K. ‘(Editorial) The “alcopops” tax: heading in the right direction’. Medical Journal of Australia. 2 March 2009, pp. 293–294.

Doran, C. M., & Shakeshaft, A. P. ‘Using taxes to curb drinking in Australia’, Lancet, vol. 372, no. 9640, 30 Aug 2008. pp. 701–702.

Huckle, T., Sweetsur, P., Moyes, S., & Casswell, S. ‘Ready to drinks are associated with heavier drinking patterns among young females’, Drug & Alcohol Review, vol. 27, no. 4, Jul 2008. pp. 398–403.

Reissig, Chad J.; Strain, Eric C.; Griffiths, Roland R. (January 2009) Caffeinated energy drinks – a growing problem, Drug and Alcohol Dependence 99:1–3, pp. 1–10.Top of page

Senate Community Affairs Committee. ‘Inquiry into Excise Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 and Customs Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 (provisions) and the impact of the tax on ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages Final Report’. Commonwealth of Australia. 16 March 2009.

Senate Community Affairs Committee. ‘Inquiry into Ready-to-drink alcohol beverages Final Report’. Commonwealth of Australia. 24 June 2008.

Skov, S. J. National alcohol policy after “alcopops”: what next?’ Medical Journal of Australia 27 May 2009. pp. 662–663.

Woodward, S. ‘Little Aussie drinkers: how alcopops are grooming the next generation’, Ethical Investor (Maroubra no. 77, Jun 2008. pp. 26–28.

Economic studies

Bolam, B., & Coast, J. ‘Comparison of methods for estimating the subnational cost of alcohol misuse’, Public Health, vol. 122, no. 3, Mar 2008. pp. 307–312.

Doran, C. M., Shakeshaft, A. P., Halb, W., & Petrie, D. ‘Alcohol industry and government revenue derived from underage drinking by Australian adolescents 2005’, Addictive Behaviors, vol. 34, no. 1, Jan 2009. pp. 75–81.Top of page


Doran, Christopher; Vos, Theo; Cobiac, Linda; Hall, Wayne; Asamoah, Isaac; Wallace, Angela; Naidoo, Shamesh; Byrnes, Joshua. (2008) Identifying cost-effective interventions to reduce the burden of harm associated with alcohol misuse in Australia, Deakin ACT: Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation (AERF).

Jarl, J., Johansson, P., Eriksson, A., Eriksson, M., Gerdtham, U. G., Hemstrom, O., Selin, K. H., Lenke, L., Ramstedt, M., & Room, R. ‘The societal cost of alcohol consumption: an estimation of the economic and human cost including health effects in Sweden, 2002’, European Journal of Health Economics, vol. 9, no. 4, Nov 2008. pp. 351–360.

Ramful, P., & Zhao, X. ‘Individual heterogeneity in alcohol consumption: the case of beer, wine and spirits in Australia’, Economic Record, vol. 84, no. 265, Jun 2008. pp. 207–222.

Rosen, S. M., Miller, T. R., & Simon, M. ‘The cost of alcohol in California’, Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, vol. 32, no. 11, Nov 2008. pp. 1925–1936.

Srivastava, P. Does bingeing affect earnings? Melbourne: Centre for Health Economics. Monash University 2008.

van den, B. M., van Baal, P. H., Tariq, L., Schuit, A. J., de Wit, G. A., & Hoogenveen, R. T. ‘The cost-effectiveness of increasing alcohol taxes: a modelling study’, BMC Medicine, vol. 6, 2008. p. 36.

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