Your Beer Is Taxed More Than Our Gas Exports | We Did the Numbers on What Could Have Been

About this episode

The episode discusses the disparity between beer taxes and gas export revenues in Australia, highlighting Senator David Pocock's concerns and comparing it to Norway's approach during their oil boom.

Australians pay more in beer tax than what the government collects from companies exporting our gas. Senator David Pocock has been calling it out in Parliament, it's doing the rounds, and it's got Jase fired up. He's done the numbers on the petroleum resources rent tax, looked at how Norway faced the same situation with their oil boom and took a very different approach, and what a 10% levy on Australia's resource exports over the last 20 years could have built.

People in this episode

Hosts: Nick Reilly, Jason Robinson

Topics covered

• beer tax
• gas exports
• petroleum resources rent tax
• Norway oil boom
• resource export levy

Keywords

• beer tax
• gas exports
• petroleum resources rent tax
• Australia
• Norway
• resource levy
• Senator David Pocock

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Norway, Australia

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