Senate debates
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Motions
Tobacco Taxation
6:24 pm
David Leyonhjelm (NSW, Liberal Democratic Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I move:
That the Senate notes:
(a) tobacco taxes fall disproportionately on the poor;
(b) Australia's taxation of tobacco is already high by international standards; and
(c) higher tobacco taxes will promote the production and smuggling of illicit tobacco by organised crime.
Question negatived.