Plucking the Foreign Goose: Australia’s Tax on Backpackers

‘The morning news on the ABC network featured blondes, and more blondes, riding a derelict van along a non-descript street in sunny Australia. It did not matter who they were, or even where they were. They were simply “backpackers”, the sort of culturally designated code for all that is money, and all that is budget.
Accustomed to the politics of plunder, the Australian budget minders have been wondering how best to cut hands that feed them over the years. There is the infamous wine equalisation tax, which largely accounts for the dear nature of wine in the country. (The wine industries in some countries tend to follow a tax on volume, not alcohol.)’
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