Raising Tobacco Taxes: The Philippine Experience

The sociodemographic patterning of opposition to raising taxes on tobacco and restricting tobacco advertisements in Argentina.

BACKGROUND Argentina has enacted important tobacco control initiatives in recent years. Yet little is known about the social patterning of attitudes toward tobacco control. Research is needed to explore what predicts opposition to tobacco control initiatives such as higher taxes on tobacco and the prohibition of tobacco advertising. STUDY DESIGN Secondary analysis of Argentina's Global Adult ...

Raising taxes through Equalization∗

A simple theory suggests that a common form of federal horizontal equalization grants should cause subnational governments to levy higher tax rates, distorting local tax bases and so increasing federal transfers. To test this, I examine Canadian provincial tax policies in the 1972-2002 period. Consistent with the theory, provinces respond to expansions of equalization transfers by increasing th...

Modelling the impact of raising tobacco taxes on public health and finance

OBJECTIVE To investigate the potential for tobacco tax to contribute to the 2030 agenda for sustainable development by reducing tobacco use, saving lives and generating tax revenues. METHODS A model of the global cigarette market in 2014--developed using data for 181 countries--was used to quantify the impact of raising cigarette excise in each country by one international dollar (I$) per 20-...

Tobacco taxes and regressivity.

Recent literature on tobacco taxation suggests that optimal tax rates should be very high. But such high taxes raise concerns over regressivity. Most econometric estimates of elasticities by income group use historic price data that are low, and the usefulness of such estimates is therefore questionable on account of the serious 'out of sample' prediction problem. To address that problem, this ...

A Dozen Reasons for Raising Gasoline Taxes