Back to the serious business of booze and how rorted we get in this country, here's a link to the excise rates our exalted parliament charge.
http://law.ato.gov.au/atolaw/view.htm?Docid=PAC/BL030002/1&PiT=99991231235958So let's breakdown the monies in a 700ml bottle of Smirnoff currently on special for $30.00
Excise rate $76.37/lt of alc.
$76.37 x 0.7 x 0.375 =$20.05
GST $30/1.1 = $2.73
So that's $22.78 out of $30 that goes straight into the government coffers and if it's an imported spirit then you can add 5% import duty to that too unless we have a free trade agreement with the exporters country.
Doesn't leave much for the distributor and retailer does it? And I can tell you now that the retailer would be making less than $2 on that sale.
Also goes a long way to explaining why a 700 of voddy sets you back about $12.00 in the States too.
And if you can't be arsed doing the sums the excise on a carton of full strength is about $15.
Feckers
now the first one is kissing my dry lips yeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww
but what were you doing googling that critter in the first place ..... 
should be more of it with NO reduced whatchamacallits at all .... full strength no cats piss in here 
that's probably why 
