AIRLINE TICKET TAXES: INNOVATION OR IDIOCY?

Anna Hård af Segerstad

Economic Affairs, 2006, vol. 26, issue 4, 68-71

Abstract: The French President Jacques Chirac has proposed an airline ticket tax to finance international efforts to reduce poverty. This article describes how the proposal came about and examines the benefits and drawbacks of this method of helping the poor. It is concluded that the tax is more of a stunt to ensure Mr Chirac's place in the history books than a genuinely innovative method of financing the elimination of poverty.

Date: 2006
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0270.2006.00673.x

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:ecaffa:v:26:y:2006:i:4:p:68-71

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.blackwell ... bs.asp?ref=0265-0665

Access Statistics for this article

Economic Affairs is currently edited by Philip Booth

More articles in Economic Affairs from Wiley Blackwell
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().