Locals are adamant they won't curb their beer intake despite this week's tax increase.
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Downing a traditional cold one at the pub on Tuesday, Trevor 'Millsy' Mills said tax is an Aussie way of life.
"The government has to get their money from somewhere," he said over a pint.
Having a yarn with his mates, they all agree: the tax man won't stop them from blowing the froth off a couple.
"We will keep drinking," Gary 'Beast' Burns promised.
The government has to get their money from somewhere.
- Trevor 'Millsy' Mills
Of the world's advanced industrial countries, Australians pay the fourth highest beer tax, according to economist and Emeritus Professor Kym Anderson AC from the University of Adelaide.
The tax went up on Monday, thanks to an automatic CPI increase that slugs beer drinkers every February and August.
Aussies now pay $2.26 per litre of alcohol - 42 per cent of which is tax alone.
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This is 17 times more tax than Germany, 15 times more than Spain, and almost double that of our New Zealand neighbours.
One solution: just grab another tinnie and forget our sorrows.