STUDY QUESTION What effect on body mass index, obesity and diabetes can we expect from the 1-peso-per-litre tax to sugar sweetened beverages in Mexico? METHODS Using recently published estimates of the reductions in beverage purchases due to the tax, we modelled its expected long-term impacts on body mass index (BMI), obesity and diabetes. Microsimulations based on a nationally representative...

The effectiveness of using taxation as a redistributive tool depends on the design of the tax system. The Kenyan tax system comprises two main direct taxes (individual income and corporate taxes), and three main indirect taxes (Value Added Tax, Excise tax and Customs duties). Usage of income taxes has declined over time. However, income taxes still contribute the largest share of total tax reve...

the aim of this study was to examine dimensions of tax exemptions in iran sport from viewpoints of managers of sport clubs and sport experts. the research method was descriptive and correlation. statistical population included the managers of sport clubs and sport experts in three provinces of tehran, isfahan and fars. sample of managers were equal to the statistical population (n=n=25) and the...

e-commerce that has undergone an increasing trend in recent years has been regarded as the modern method for transfer of information and economic exchange.   this phenomenon brings about massive changes in most of relations between various economic institutions. such changes have also occurred in tax systems. hence, the present research aims to investigate effect of e-commerce on tax structure ...

in this paper modeling and forecasting of revenue of taxes in fifth development plan is investigated based on a special structure of nonlinear neural networks. the time series of taxes which are studied in this research are related to total tax, direct tax, indirect tax, companies’ tax, income tax, wealth tax, and import tax. based on the correlation dimension estimation technique, the structur...

This paper analyses tax competition between a unionised and a non-unionised country for the location of an outside firm. We show that unionisation offers an extra incentive for the government to attract a foreign competitor to a concentrated domestic market, in order to affect the behaviour of the domestic union. This results in the unionised country’s government offering a tax discount (or a s...