"Calling it a 'tax' is indeed inaccurate and misleading. The purpose of the inquiry was to look at regional price discrimination against Australian consumers."

"Calling it a 'tax' is indeed inaccurate and misleading. The purpose of the inquiry was to look at regional price discrimination against Australian consumers." I think the name, in quotation marks, is spot on. It's just like saying "the Apple tax", a substantial upmark in the final price of a product compared to similar ones, due to reasons that have nothing to to with taxes, but having basically the same effect.