YaY! Corrupt OZschwitz Senate has axed the alcopops tax

THE Senate has axed the alcopops tax, blowing a $1.6 billion hole in the budget over four years.

The Federal Government yesterday lost by a single vote the legislation to validate the tax after the Family First senator, Steve Fielding, joined the Coalition to reject it..

The Government will now have to return to distillers the $290 million in revenues it has collected from the 70 per cent rise on ready-to-drink spirit products.

The Government introduced the tax last April to discourage young, particularly female, drinkers bingeing on the sweetened beverages. The Coalition has rejected it as a "tax grab" that has failed to work.

Senator Fielding joined the Coalition to quash the tax after the Government rejected his demand for a ban on alcohol advertising during sports programs in family viewing hours. He offered to give the Government three years to implement the ban.

But last night the Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, dismissed Senator Fielding's demand as too difficult. "We do not believe the requests he was pursuing were ones that could be acted upon now," she said.

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YaY! Corrupt OZschwitz Senate has axed the alcopops tax

YaY! Corrupt OZschwitz Senate has axed the alcopops tax

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