‘This has to stop’: Radical cut to tobacco excise has to be made to ‘snuff out’ illegal market

Liberal MP Mary Aldred says a “radical cut” to the tobacco excise is essential to “snuff out” the illegal market. ​“We’ve done some further work with the Parliamentary Budget Office on a figure of 80 per cent,” Ms Aldred told News24 host Jaimee Rogers. ​“That would show billions being able to be clawed back to the legal market, but most importantly snuffing out the illegal market. ​“This has got to stop, so we’ve put a huge amount of work into the modelling side of this.”