Accelerating Effective Tobacco Taxes in Mexico: Tax Policy and Health Costs
This Policy Brief was written by the South American Network on Applied Economics/Red Sur for the project “Tobacco Taxes in Latin America” examining the tobacco tax structure and public health initiatives in Mexico. The brief presents the main findings and policy recommendations developed from a background study by Ethos, Laboratorio de Políticas Públicas. The brief recommends increasing excise taxes on tobacco at a rate higher than inflation and allocating additional resources and revenue gained from excise tax increases into public health programs.
A corresponding background country report in Spanish can be found here.
October 2019
Location(s): Latin America and the Carribbean, Mexico
Project: Think Tanks Project: Accelerating Progress on Tobacco Taxes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Content Type: Policy Brief
Topic(s): Cost-effectiveness, Economic impacts of tobacco control, Impact on demand, Tax and price, Tax avoidance and evasion, Tax levels and structure, Tobacco taxes revenues
Authors(s): Claudia Córdova, Rodrigo Bolaños, Dalia Toledo, Alejandro Alegría, Liliana Alvarado
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