{"id":72123,"date":"2026-02-15T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/treasury-considering-changes-to-australias-contentious-tobacco-excise-as-calls-grow-for-a-freeze\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:00:00","slug":"treasury-considering-changes-to-australias-contentious-tobacco-excise-as-calls-grow-for-a-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/treasury-considering-changes-to-australias-contentious-tobacco-excise-as-calls-grow-for-a-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury considering changes to Australia\u2019s contentious tobacco excise, as calls grow for a freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ab16b8fca726954f1e318afb3d341146419a2761\/373_0_3855_3084\/master\/3855.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=3005d06b784d6f86b9505f07860a0c44\" alt=\"Treasury considering changes to Australia\u2019s contentious tobacco excise, as calls grow for a freeze\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Treasury considering changes to Australia\u2019s contentious tobacco excise, as calls grow for a freeze<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">The tax has climbed by 60% since 2020 and accounts for three-quarters of the legal cost of a packet of cigarettesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastExperts say a freeze on the federal government\u2019s contentious tobacco excise should be considered, after the Treasury revealed it was modelling the impacts of cigarette prices on demand amid a booming black market.Lachlan Vass, a research manager at the e61 Institute, said the Treasury\u2019s examination of \u201cprice elasticity\u201d and demand for tobacco would be a necessary step to costing potential reforms to the excise. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/16\/treasury-considering-changes-to-australias-contentious-tobacco-excise-as-calls-grow-for-a-freeze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Treasury considering changes to Australia\u2019s contentious tobacco excise, as calls grow for a freeze The tax has climbed by 60% since 2020 and accounts for three-quarters of the legal cost of a packet of cigarettesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastExperts say a freeze on the federal government\u2019s contentious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":72124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}