Taxing Sin - Michael Thom

Taxing Sin

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Buch | Softcover
VII, 186 Seiten
2020 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-49175-8 (ISBN)
29,95 inkl. MwSt

Conventional wisdom dictates that those goods which are said to cause harm or impose costs on society deserve a special tax. For centuries, governments have levied these "sin taxes" on alcohol and tobacco, but the list of taxable sins has now grown to include soda and marijuana, with calls to impose further taxes on plastic bags, meat, and even robots and carbon. Contrary to what experts and policymakers tell us, many of these alleged sins impose very little, if any, cost on society, and the harms that do exist can be minimized without resorting to tax. What follows in this book is a discussion of four case studies-on tobacco, marijuana, alcohol and soda-which make the case against the conventional wisdom in taxing these "sins", before concluding that when it comes to taxing sin, it is time for governments to forgive-and forget.   



Michael Thom is an Associate Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, USA. He teaches courses in public finance, public budgeting, and regulation. He is the author of Tax Politics and Policy (2017), and his research on public finance issues, from corporate tax incentives to public sector pensions, has appeared in journals including Public Administration Review , the American Review of Public Administration , State and Local Government Review , and American Politics Research .

1. Tax Your Sins, Experts Say.- 2. Taxing Soda.- 3. Taxing Alcohol.- 4. Taxing Tobacco.- 5. Taxing Marijuana.- 6. Taxing Twenty-First Century Sins.- 7. Don't Tax Sin, Forgive It.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo VII, 186 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 264 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Politik / Gesellschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Mikroökonomie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte Alcohol • Behavioural Economics • beverage tax • Cannabis • Cognitive Bias • government paternalism • Marijuana • pigou • Pigouvian taxes • progressivism • sin taxes • Smoking • Soda Tax • Tax Policy • tax revenue • Tobacco Policy • vaping
ISBN-10 3-030-49175-7 / 3030491757
ISBN-13 978-3-030-49175-8 / 9783030491758
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