Cask wine, that staple of every impoverished uni student’s drinking diet, could be about to get way more expensive.

Health experts have lobbied the Abbott government to increase taxes on the cheap wine, better known as ‘goon’.

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The price hike could be contained in the next federal budget in May, Fairfax Media has reported.

The government is “certainly looking at anomalies in the tax system that favour large producers of cheap alcohol, and the health issues associated with those anomalies,” an unnamed government advisor told the media outlet.

The government can collect as much as 80 cents in tax from a stubby of beer, and $20 from a bottle of whiskey, The New Daily has previously reported.

In contrast, the taxman gets as little as $1.60 from an entire 4-litre cask of wine.