Could targeted food taxes improve health?

EVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE Could targeted food taxes improve health?

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Can targeted food taxes and subsidies improve the diet? Distributional effects among income groups

This paper analyses distributional effects of revenue-neutral tax reforms aimed at improving dietary quality and encouraging healthier grain consumption. Using data on household grain purchases, we analyse both the impact on dietary quality and the tax incidence among income groups of VAT reforms and excise duty reforms. The VAT reforms include subsidies of healthy products (products labelled w...

Modelling income group differences in the health and economic impacts of targeted food taxes and subsidies.

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects, by income group, of targeted food taxes and subsidies on nutrition, health and expenditure in the UK. METHODS A model based on consumption data and demand elasticity was constructed to predict the effects of four food taxation-subsidy regimens. Resulting changes in demand, expenditure, nutrition, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer mortality were estimate...

The real cost of food: can taxes and subsidies improve public health?

Suboptimal diet quality is among the leading factors associated with death and disability in the United States 1 and globally. 2 Strategies to address suboptimal diet focus on nutrition education through dietary guidelines and food package labeling. However, this approach places responsibility for healthier diets on an individual's ability to make informed choices rather than addressing the com...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?