13.3.1 Recommended retail price of tobacco productsīeginning in 1940, the NSW Retail Tobacco Traders' Association has been printing and distributing to small retailers in all states and territories lists of the wholesale and recommended retail prices for cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco produced by major international tobacco companies, and virtually all cigars and pipe tobacco, sold in Australia. It outlines efforts by manufacturers to reduce the impact of increases in taxes, both by minimising tax liability, by encouraging discounting at the retail level, through differential pricing of particular brands and by varying the pack size of cigarettes and other tobacco products to affect upfront purchase price and unit cost. This section examines the extent to which increases in tobacco taxes have resulted in rises in the price of cigarettes and other tobacco products in Australia. However, because tax is such a substantial component, the level and nature of tobacco duties, fees and taxes rather than production and marketing factors historically have been the main determinants of the final retail price of cigarettes over time in Australia as in most developed countries. Available from Īs in other industries, the costs of raw materials, manufacturing, promotion and distribution of tobacco products are important in determining profits to tobacco growers, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. In Greenhalgh, EM, Scollo, MM and Winstanley, MH. 13.3 The price of tobacco products in Australia. Suggested citation: Scollo, M, and Bayly, M.
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