New tax study not credible, says WFA chief

The Winemakers’ Federation of Australia (WFA) has slammed a Monash University study into the impact of increasing wine taxation on at-risk consumers. Paul Evans, WFA chief executive, said the study was poor in its method and its outcomes were not credible. “The study calls for a minimum floor price on alcohol – a notion already discredited by the former Australian National Preventative Health Agency – or an increase in wine taxes and it claims these will reduce consumption by at-risk or heavy drinkers,” he said.