Orange wine producers band together to air concerns over new tax

THE NEW wine equalisation tax (WET) could have grave consequences for many of Orange’s wine producers. Along with the Wine Federation of Australia, Orange producers want the government to retain the $500,000 WET rebate cap and not reduce it to $290,000 and also bring forward from July 2019 to July 2017 changes to exclude bulk and unbranded wine from the rebate.