Excise on alcohol

Understand your alcohol excise obligations, including registration, licensing, lodgment, payment and record keeping.

Alcohol excise and key terms
Understand your excise obligations and key terms if your business manufactures, produces or stores excisable alcohol.

Excise on beer
Your excise obligations if your business manufactures beer, stores underbond, or sells beer.

Excise on spirits and other excisable beverages
Your excise obligations if your business manufactures, stores underbond, or sells spirits or other excisable beverages.

Excise licences for excisable alcohol
How to get an excise licence to manufacture, produce, or store underbond alcohol products and tell us of changes.

Permission to move excisable alcohol products
How to apply for permission to move underbond excisable goods between excise-licensed premises or to a place of export.

Excise duty rates for alcohol
Find the current excise duty rates for alcohol on beer, spirits and other excisable beverages.

Calculating alcohol excise duty
Work out the excise duty you need to pay on alcohol using the volume and strength of your final product.

Lodging and paying – excisable alcohol
How to lodge an excise return and pay excise duty on alcohol products if you hold an excise licence.

Refunds and drawbacks for excisable alcohol
How to claim a refund or drawback on excisable alcohol.

Excise remissions for excisable alcohol
Find out how to get a remission of alcohol excise duty for supply or manufacture through the remission scheme.

Record keeping for excisable alcohol
Learn which records your business needs to keep if you hold an excise licence for alcohol products.

What attracts our attention – illicit alcohol
Understand what illicit alcohol is and how we respond to it.

Contact us about excisable alcohol
Who to contact if your business manufactures, produces, or stores excisable alcohol in Australia.