Health Taxes:Policy and Practice

Edited by Jeremy A Lauer, Franco Sassi, Agnès Soucat and Angeli Vigo

in World Scientific Books from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Virtually all fiscal measures influence people's health, through their impacts on behaviour, consumption, income and wealth. A narrow subset of fiscal measures, however, can be more directly aimed at improving health by targeting behaviours and risks that are known to be strongly associated with health outcomes. The purpose of this book is to discuss the subject of these measures, which we define as "health taxes". The book aims to enumerate key health taxes of interest, explore their positive and negative effects, and how these effects are influenced by the design of these taxes and the context in which they are applied. We ask how and where they can be implemented. Critically, we build an argument throughout the book for why policymakers across government should care about health taxes.

Keywords: Health Tax; Health Taxes; Tobacco Tax; Alcohol Tax; Sugary Drinks Tax; SSB Tax; Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax; Fiscal Policy; Health; Non-communicable Diseases; NCDs; Health Financing; Public Finance; Public Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 I15 K32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 9781800612389
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction , pp 1-21

Franco Sassi, Jeremy A Lauer, Agnes Soucat, Angeli Vigo and Jeremias Paul

Ch 2 The Place for Health Taxes in the Wider Fiscal System , pp 23-55

Céline Colin, Gioia de Melo and Bert Brys

Ch 3 Protecting and Promoting Health Through Taxation: Evidence and Gaps , pp 57-86

Lisa M Powell and Frank J Chaloupka

Ch 4 Supply-Side Responses to Health Taxes , pp 87-115

Annalisa Belloni and Franco Sassi

Ch 5 The UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy as an Incentive for Beverage Reformulation , pp 116-125

Martin White, Jean Adams, Cherry Law and Peter Scarborough

Ch 6 The Labour Market Impact of Health Taxes , pp 127-161

Sarah Mounsey, Lisa M Powell and Frank J Chaloupka

Ch 7 Impacts of Health Taxes on the Attainment of the SDGs , pp 163-224

Norman Maldonado-Vargas and Blanca Llorente

Ch 8 Expanding Health Taxation to Other Unhealthy Behaviours and Harmful Activities , pp 225-263

Andreia Costa Santos, Thiago Hérick de Sá, Michael Oliver Hinsch, Ernesto Sánchez Triana and Jeremy A Lauer

Ch 9 The Design of Effective Health Taxes , pp 265-294

Lisa M Powell and Frank J Chaloupka

Ch 10 Health Taxes and Illicit Trade: Evidence and Courses of Action , pp 295-306

Norman Maldonado-Vargas

Ch 11 Public Governance and Financing, and Earmarking Health Taxes , pp 307-337

Ceren Ozer and Susan P Sparkes

Ch 12 Managing the Politics of Earmarked Health Taxes , pp 338-350

Katherine Smith and Mark Hellowell

Ch 13 Monitoring and Measuring Health Taxes , pp 351-399

Rosa Carolina Sandoval, Maxime Roche, Anne-Marie Perucic, Miriam Alvarado, Itziar Belausteguigoitia, Luis Galicia and Guillermo Paraje

Ch 14 Health Taxes and Trade Law , pp 401-430

Benn McGrady and Kritika Khanijo

Ch 15 A Political Economy Analysis of Health Taxes , pp 431-484

Thomas F Babor, Jeff Collin and Maristela G Monteiro

Ch 16 The Role of Civil Society in Tobacco Tax Reform in the Philippines , pp 485-496

Filomeno Sta Ana, Angeli Vigo and Jeremias Paul

Ch 17 The Future of Health Taxes: Helping It Happen , pp 497-512

Angeli Vigo, Jeremy A Lauer, Franco Sassi and Agnes Soucat

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