Sin Taxes

Explains why tobacco and alcohol taxes can be regressive and harm low-income households, with policy implications.

TaxationExplaineralcohol taxesdeadweight lossdistributional effectsinequalityregressive taxationsin taxesChristopher Snowdon

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• Institute of Economic Affairs · 2016-07-06

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