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The impact of cigarette excise tax Increases and harmonisation in the East African community
… be used to predict the likely impacts of tobacco tax increases and harmonisation in the East African Community. The model has five sections, one for each EAC country. These sections consider different cigarette market segments based on tax or price differentials. The model can therefore calculate …
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An Evaluation of the Federal Excise Tax on the Transportation of Propertywith Particular Reference to Its Effects Upon the Use of Private Trucking
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Smoke Signals: An Analysis of Policies to Reduce Hookah Use Among Adolescents in Washington State
… to 21 years of age; and (3) increasing the state excise tax on pipe tobacco to equal that of the state excise tax on cigarettes. These policy options were analyzed using three criteria: (a) the predicted reduction in the prevalence of hookah use among twelfth graders; (b) the fiscal impact on WA …
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British American tobacco PLC: an analysis of the group's pricing strategy across its key markets
Tobacco products are subject to substantial excise and sales taxes. In most countries these increase over time, but the rate of increase varies between countries and across different types of tobacco products. The tobacco industry is opposed to increases in tobacco taxes, changes in relative tax …
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Framing the Issue - How the Medical Device Industry's Arguments Translated into Political Tools and Action
The Medical Device Excise Tax (MDET) was developed as a funding source to help cover the cost of expanded health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The excise tax is a 2.3% tax on sales of certain medical devices and is paid by the manufacturer of the device (Bolka, 2014). This …
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A Control Theoretic Model of Automobile Demand and Gasoline Consumption
… fuel rationing plan with use of the federal excise tax on gasoline. It is demonstrated that the standby targets are attainable with the tax.
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Smoking cessation in South Africa: cigarette prices, plain packaging, and illicit trade
… Marschak auction. Since increasing excise taxes increases the demand for low-priced, untaxed cigarettes, smokers may switch to low-priced cigarettes instead of quitting. In the fourth chapter, I investigate the illicit cigarette market using gap analysis. Gap analysis is based on a …
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A computable general equilibrium analysis of a statewide fiscal reform: the case of Michigan's 1993-3 property tax reform
… general equilibrium model analyzes the tax effects of simultaneously reducing property taxes by 44 percent and increasing the rate of sales taxation from four to six percent in Michigan in 1994. The dissertation fills the void in the literature for empirical regional computable general …
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Essays on motor fuel taxation and price dynamics in the European Union
… It examines changes in the characteristics and taxation rates of the EU representative member-country and shows that the EU countries decreased their motor fuel excise taxes, but increased VAT taxes.</p><p>There has been an ongoing dialogue in the EU about tax harmonization because fuel taxes …
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Application Of The Competitive Storage Model To Us Corn Ethanol Policy
… no policy, an ethanol consumption mandate, an excise tax credit, and both a mandate and tax credit together. The results show that the application of biofuel policy increases the expected price of corn and increases the amount of corn stored.
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Effect of increased reliance on specific excise on the consumption of cigarettes
Research has shown that specific tax is more effective in discouraging the behavior of smoking than ad valorem tax. This paper makes use of panel data on 39 countries to investigate the impact of increased reliance on specific tax on cigarette consumption. The data used includes 21 countries, from …
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A szabályozó eszközök rengetegében. A villamosenergia-szektor piaci kudarcait kezelő szabályozó eszközök egymásra hatásának vizsgálata = In the jungle of regulatory instruments. Analysis of the interaction of regulatory instruments dealing with the market failures of the electricity sector
… manage these market failures. These include the excise tax imposed on more polluting technologies, support to cleaner technologies, the introduction of emission trading or some support to investments into energy efficiency. These instruments, nevertheless, deliver their impacts through similar …
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Sugar-sweetened beverages in Nigeria: Affordability and expenditure and price elasticities
… in CSDs, by raising the price by implementing an excise tax on the sugar content in CSDs. Future research should estimate the health gains and government revenue that can be generated from such a tax. Such estimates are crucial to motivate for a sugar tax.
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Optimal and maximal taxation within and among industries with various degrees of competitiveness
<p>The optimal commodity taxation problem is examined in a model of the economy which consists of both perfectly and imperfectly competitive industries. The number of possible tax instruments is expanded by including license fees and a profits tax in addition to unit and ad valorem excise taxes. …
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The bouquet of freedom : social and economic relations in the Stellenbosch district, c1870-1900
… by the general recession of the 1880s, by the excise tax on brandy, by phylloxera and by periodic labour shortages. Farmers, especially those capitalising their agricultural production, looked to the Zuid Afrikaansche Boere Beskermings Vereeniging and later the amalgamated Afrikaner Bond to …
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The economics of tobacco control in some African countries
… We know from several studies that tax and price measures are the single most effective policy tool for reducing tobacco consumption. However, most of this evidence is based on studies conducted in developed countries with very few published studies on African countries. The second …
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National and state policies and the prevalence of adult obesity: A 30 year trend analysis in the United States
… literature on the effect of nutritional and taxation policies on obesity uses specific short timeframes or cross-sectional data. To fill the gaps in the literature, this study examines the association of national policies on nutritional guidelines, state taxes on soda, and state expenditures …
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Comparison on the rules of origin for customs and excise
… of origin. In some respects, current customs and excise legislation relating to rules of origin places South Africa at a disadvantage in the global arena. In some cases, preferential rules of origin with developed countries benefit South Africa little if they are not properly structured, or if the …
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Predictors of Adolescent E-cigarette Use
… smoking among youth, such as implementing an excise tax or banning flavored cigarettes. Future researchers should examine the relationship between adolescents’ beliefs about the safety of e-cigarettes and e-cigarette use and evaluate possible predictors of the frequency of e-cigarette use.</p>
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Demand Estimation with Differentiated Products: An Application to Price Competition in the U.S. Brewing Industry
… exploiting the exogenous change in the federal excise tax of 1991. Demand estimates of the first stage are used to compute the implied marginal costs for the different models of pricing behavior prior to the tax increase. Then, the tax increase is added to the these pre-tax increase marginal …
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