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• June 8, 2020

  The Pass-Through of Alcohol Excise Taxes to Prices in OECD Countries: Filling In the Evidence Gap

  Increasing alcohol excise taxes is the most effective regulatory policy to reduce excessive drinking and related harms. Tax pass-through rates measure how much prices increase when taxes are increased by one unit – a critical step in the mechanism of excise taxes as an alcohol control policy. If prices are … Read more »

• May 27, 2020

  World No Tobacco Day 2020: Tobacco Taxes Are a Powerful Tool Against Tobacco Industry Efforts to Attract Youth

  Sunday, May 31, 2020 is World No Tobacco Day and this year’s theme focuses on efforts by the tobacco industry to target young people. Raising tobacco taxes is one of the most effective tobacco control policy tools to discourage tobacco use in the overall population, but even more so for … Read more »

• May 12, 2020

  A Closer Look at Tobacco Tax Progressivity: New Research from UIC Think Tank Partners in Latin America

  Most research on the distributional impacts of tobacco taxation focuses on the shift in the tax burden for different income groups that occurs immediately after a tax increase. In most countries, poorer people spend proportionately more of their income on tobacco products, and they are much more sensitive to tax … Read more »

• February 27, 2020

  Tobacconomics Partners Share Tobacco Tax Research Findings at ECToH

  The 8th European Conference on Tobacco or Health (ECToH) took place in Berlin, Germany last week. Tobacconomics team members and Southeastern European think tank partners all participated and presented their research. Here now are the highlights. Of Special Note: Tobacconomics’ researcher Aida Djika from the Development Solutions Associates (DSA) in Albania … Read more »

• January 9, 2020

  Starting the New Year out Right: Tobacco Tax Increase in Indonesia is Set to Raise Tobacco Prices

  Indonesia has been the focus of attention for tobacco control advocates for some time. The high and growing rates of smoking combined with a large population have also made it a commercial priority for the tobacco industry over the last few decades. Historically, Indonesia has a weak record on tobacco taxes, … Read more »

• December 10, 2019

  A Good First Step: Mexico Updates its Tobacco Tax for Inflation

  Mexico has just approved an update for inflation to the Special Tax on Production and Services (IEPS) for tobacco as part of its “Economic Package for the Fiscal Year 2020”—the first update of the tax since 2011. For 2020, this translates to an increase of the IEPS from 0.35 to … Read more »