Australian Alcopop Tax Case Study

Underage drinking was, is, and always will be a problem. No matter the drinking age, teenagers will find a way to score some alcohol somewhere. Many college students actually invest in fake ID’s. This is a common way for people underage to acquire alcohol. The maturity level of teenagers is not great enough to withstand the power to buy alcohol. Teenagers are less responsible and there are studies that show it. A study commenced by “dui.drivinglaws.org” recorded that seventeen percent of fatal accidents happen from underage drunk drivers. If the law was lowered it would be medically irresponsible. The brain of young adults is nowhere near fully developed as a teenager.

To begin with lowering the drinking age to eighteen would be good for supervision. For example being able to drink at age eighteen will have the citizens drink legally in bars, restaurants and other licenses establishments ( DrinkingAgeProCon.org#4).In fact all licensed establishments have a time that says only certain amounts of drinks to a person. Future more that will cause the workers at the restaurants or at the public place to be notify how much that one person had to drink. Which that will prevent that one person from not over drinking. Or if the person already drink intoxicant the workers can assistant them the safely route to be getting home, safe and un harm. According to the website (DrinkAgeProCon.org#4) it says “allowing eighteens to twenty year olds to drink alcohol in regulated environments with supervision would decrease unsafe drinking activity". In fact having restaurants or any licensed establishment’s serving alcohol to eighteen years olds would help the economy because the age group went down then" greater amounts of tax revenue should be collected by the government (DrinkingAgeProCon.org#4). So public drinkers will be in save drinking because there will be regulations to be follow. At the same time they would be making money for the government, how can the government

1. The ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was necessary to validate the Federal income tax on individuals.

On October 11th, 2016 Cook County, which includes the city of Chicago passed a one cent per ounce soda tax. Due to a lawsuit by the Illinois Merchant Association the new law did not even come into effect until August 2nd 2017. Now, due to a repeal, the law will cease to be in effect by December 1st, giving this law an effective life of about four months. The tax seems a no brainer with about 25% of United States boys and girls suffering from obesity. However the law had two major shortcomings. First, it had a bad start due to a poor implementation of the tax, since the tax was originally levied on producers instead of at the point of sale. This caused what is known as a double tax situation, soda companies were being charged two taxes in

In 1984 the United States Government approved the National Minimum Drinking Age Act that required that “the States prohibit persons under 21 years of age from purchasing or publicly possessing alcoholic beverages as a condition of receiving State highway funds.” Even though this bill was nowhere near the magnitude of the prohibition act that was passed less than a century before it, the act still damaged the relationship between individuals, firms, and the United States government. Although the intentions of the government were to control alcohol consumption among citizens aged 18-21, the passing of this act affected the equilibrium already established by a consumer-producer market, created a market failure and a black market, and introduced excise taxes into the market.

When people turn to the age of eighteen, they are finally considered an adult. They can join the army, have the right to vote, buy cigarettes or tobacco products, get a tattoo and even die for our country, but they aren’t allowed to buy alcohol? A person can be responsible enough to live on his or her own, make money, pay bills, and yet they are not old enough to purchase or consume any type of alcohol. Underage drinking has been a major controversial issue for years. Teenagers are continuing to buy alcohol with fake identification cards, drink, get into bars, and drink illegally. As being a teenager, these things are going on not only in college, but also in high school. There are a lot of factors as to

Secondly, by legalize drinking age to eighteen; the government can easily control alcohol abuse. A study was conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to see whether underage people can buy beer and liquor through online websites. They made 8 people, aged from 18-20, to lie about their age when ordering via alcoholic drinks selling website. 100 orders were made and then, they counted the number of successful orders. A shocking result was revealed: “45 of the orders were successfully made and received. Only 28 were rejected because the person making the order was found to be underage. The remaining orders did not go through because of technical glitches or because no one was home when delivery attempts were made.” The result of this experiment has shown the reality of how easy it

In the U.S., teens can do a lot once they turn 18. Citizens at the legal age can choose the potential leader of our country, serve our nation, live in their own place, and start killing themselves with cigarettes. Lowering the law for alcohol consumption will help more minors at the legal age and college campuses stay out of trouble. Half of the students drinking and providing alcohol at school are under 21. Changing the law to 18+ will also help alcohol related deaths by teaching teens to drink responsibly. Exceptions are only just making the law for drinking more complicated and causing more alcohol related deaths. Not everyone knows about these drinking laws either because people travel from state to state. Not knowing all the deviations to the law is putting more lives in danger than it is

“Soda Taxes: Gaining Steam or Getting Steamrolled?” is an enticing article by Anna Gorman that focuses on the issue of taxing sugary beverages and the effect it will ultimately have on the health of the general population. She mentions that the tax could reduce the rates of obesity and diabetes in the affected areas. She also points out the counter to this claim, that soda taxes may not have any effect on obesity rates at all and may give the government too much power over the consumer choice. Overall, she seems to advocate that soda is an unhealthy beverage and should be cut down among consumers. Soda however, is not the only unhealthy options out there. There is a plethora of products on the shelves of supermarkets and sold at restaurants.

The debate on weather sugary drinks, especially soda, should be taxed or not has been a topic for years. Some people believe that they should be taxed for the improvement of health while on the other hand some people think that taxing the drinks won't do much and actually hurt people. Taxing sugary drinks is helpful to those who have a hard time with temptation for the drinks. In the article "Do Soda Taxes Really Work?" Sifferlin states that when researchers looked at Berkeley residents, they found that when taxing soda started "sales of sugary-sweetened drinks fell by close 10% and sales of water increased in Berkeley by about 16%" (4) Just by the percent difference rasing prices on soda made people decide against buying the sweet drinks,

The estimated cost of underage drinking is about fifty eight billion dollars annually (weebly). With that amount of money given to the economy, the government could reduce concentrated poverty, which costs about four billion dollars to six billion dollars (fast company). The government could also improve performances of social services such as rehab homes or mental facilities (fast company). Fifty eight billion dollars is only the annual cost of underage drinking, the yearly cost is estimated to be a total of seven hundred fifty five million dollars (drug free). The amount of things that could be done or accomplished with that money is amazing. Lowering the drinking age would not only boost the economy but also help it. The amount of money the country would receive from lowering the drinking age would be high, considering teens under twenty one are the ones that tend to drink

     Let?s face it, no matter what laws the government enforces to cut down on underage drinking, it is commonplace and happens everywhere from grade school through high school and predominantly in college. The government is looking to stop teen drinking rather than manage it. According to Time Magazine, half the students age 10 to 24 questioned in a 1999 study by the Centers for Disease Control said they had consumed alcohol in the preceding month.

Young people are considered to constitute the largest number of alcohol consumers and they account for a large portion of alcohol sales. This is despite the strict drinking laws that govern many countries as regards alcohol purchase and consumption. Underage drinking, which has been on the increase, is allegedly the major cause of alcohol-related problems facing the modern

Alcopops are pre-mixed, spirit-based drinks. They have their own category known as the ‘ready to drink’ or RTD segment of the alcohol market. Alcopops were first sold in Australia in 1995 and the Alcopop market has expanded rapidly since then. Today, there are about 400 Alcopop products available in Australia. They usually contain high levels of sweeteners, colouring, and flavouring and resemble soft drinks in the way they taste and in their appearance. Alcopops have an average alcohol content of around five percent, which is stronger than normal strength beers. Alcopops are much more popular in the younger age groups and are the drink of choice for over half of 12-14 year olds. Alcopops have cooler names like Carnival

Alcopops are alcohol. However, to dilute the strong taste, the spirits in alcopops are mixed with fruit juice. This means it tastes similar to a soft drink, and have bright colours. Although some teenagers may turn to these colourful drinks as it seems to look less harmful - they are wrong. Alcopops are even stronger than beers, and have a high sugar content due to the added fruit juice. So, never turn to alcopops for the sake of 'having fun'.