TWE and Pernod team up to fight for tax change

The Australian Financial Review can reveal that the country’s biggest wine company, Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) and its rival, French drinks giant Pernod Ricard Winemakers – whose brands include Wyndham Estate, Jacob’s Creek and Orlando Wines – have unusually joined forces to campaign for radical changes to wine tax. TWE and Pernod have employed Newgate Communications to lobby for changes to the tax system, including replacing it with a category-based volumetric tax and outright removal of the WET rebate, which was introduced in 2004.