A call for an alcohol tax hike, promising nearly $3 billion to the budget, would hit craft brewers, bulk wine producers and cider makers the hardest.
Cheap wine quaffers, craft beer connoisseurs and traditional cider sippers would be hit hardest by any increase to the alcohol tax in the May budget, industry research suggests.
Increasing taxation by 10 per cent could cut drinking by 9.4 per cent and reap nearly $3 billion annually, according to a pre-budget submission to government by the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education.
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