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Provedor de dados: | Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
País: | United States
Título: | Taxing Sweets: Sweetener Input Tax or Final Consumption Tax?
Autores: | Miao,   Zhen; Beghin,   John C.; Jensen,   Helen H.
Data: | 2010-05-03
Ano: | 2010
Palavras-chave: | Consumption tax; Sugar; Added sweeteners; Demand; Health policy; Soda tax; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy.
Resumo: | In order to reduce obesity and associated costs, policymakers are considering various policies, including taxes, to change consumers’ high-calorie consumption habits. We investigate two sweet tax policies aimed at reducing added sweetener consumption. Both a consumption tax on sweet goods and a sweetener input tax can reach the same policy target of reducing added sweetener consumption. Both tax instruments are regressive but the associated surplus losses are limited. The tax on sweetener inputs targets sweeteners directly and causes about five times less surplus loss than the final consumption tax. Previous analyzes have overlooked this important point.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/61511

Relação:

Agricultural and Applied Economics Association&gt;2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado

Selected Paper

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Formato: | 41