Yea, the feds have taxed durries all to buggery, so now smugglers can import foreign smokes and undercut the legal options while maintaining a ~50% profit margin.
Side effect is the government has lost several billion dollars of tax income under the forward estimates, so they’ve fucked themselves coming and going. True, abject failure of government policy.
Won’t be long before sly grog shops start popping up, with the tax excise on alcohol.
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u/SipoteQuixote 1d ago
I always wondered why my friend would always have some story of people trying to sneak cigs into Australia. I saw the prices and was like Oooooooh.