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Wine Tax Hacks – Part 2 | The Wine Rules
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Shining a Light on Wine. Wine Tax Hacks – Part 2. One submission to The Wine Rules suggests that to prevent future rorting of the new wine tax rules, wine producers should be able to demonstrate that their brands be freely available in the marketplace and not “captive” brands of one retailer in order to access the WET rebate. As more than one brand owner has told me “the threat is pretty clear as to what will happen if you don’t play along.” Because the retailers already have a huge...When there is only ...
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WET, Rebates, WFA and The Two Way Bet | The Wine Rules
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Shining a Light on Wine. WET, Rebates, WFA and The Two Way Bet. Part Two – One Way Out. What do John Howard, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Nelson Mandela, John Kennedy and Bob Hawke have in common? How and why are they monumentally more important to history than the office holders who immediately preceded or followed them (Paul Keating aside)? Could Howard have gotten rid of handguns by asking his Liberal and National supporters what they thought first? Nixon with the Republicans about China? The wine ind...
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WET, Rebates, WFA and the Two Way Bet | The Wine Rules
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Shining a Light on Wine. WET, Rebates, WFA and the Two Way Bet. The Real Problem – Part 1. In classical tragedy, the sad ending is a result of a personal flaw (pride, ambition, vanity, greed, etc) or some built-in characteristic (like Achilles’s unprotected heel) that can’t be escaped. The recent changes made by the government are a result of at least one of each of these. While the current winners and losers seem obvious enough, the question of interest at this point in this slow motion play is this: di...
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