Cabinet material: reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products

23 Jul 2024

Title of Cabinet papers:

  • Reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products (May 2024)
  • Reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products (June 2024)

Titles of Cabinet minutes:

  • Heated Tobacco Products: Update (CAB-24-MIN-0172)
  • Reducing Excise Duty from Heated Tobacco Products (CAB-24-MIN-0204)

Titles of briefings and aides mémoire:

  • Smokefree 2025: progressing Coalition Agreement commitments (H2024035870)
  • Next iteration of Cabinet paper – Smokefree 2025: progressing Coalition Agreement commitments (H2024036601)
  • Cover brief for draft Cabinet paper – Smokefree 2025: progressing Coalition Agreement commitments (H2024036577)
  • Cabinet paper for departmental consultation and draft letter to Attorney-General (H2024036688)
  • Departmental feedback on Cabinet paper Smokefree 2025: progressing Coalition Agreement commitments (H2024036808)
  • Updated Cabinet paper (H2024036944)
  • Updated Cabinet paper for lodging (H2024036996)
  • Budget 2024 initiative: agreement to submit heated tobacco template (H2024038305)
  • Budget 2024: heated tobacco products initiative (H2024040761)
  • Reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products (H2024040996)
  • Updated Cabinet paper: reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products (H2024041136)
  • Talking points: Reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products Cabinet paper (H2024041690)
  • Reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products Cabinet paper (H2024042509)

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Key to redaction code/s:

  • S 9(2)(a) to protect the privacy of natural persons.
  • S 9(2)(f)(iv) to maintain the constitutional conventions that protect the confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers and officials.
  • S 9(2)(g)(i) to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank expression of opinions by or between or to Ministers and officers and employees of any public service agency.
  • S 9(2)(h) to maintain legal professional privilege.

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DIGITAL HEALTH

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