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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Taxing Sweets: Sweetener Input Tax or Final Consumption Tax?
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| Autores: |
Miao, Zhen
Beghin, John C.
Jensen, Helen H.
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| Data: |
2010-05-03
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| Ano: |
2010
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| 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
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| 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.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/61511
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| Relação: |
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association>2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado
Selected Paper
11175
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| Formato: |
41
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