Health Taxes: Policy and Practice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781800612389)

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.

Author: Jeremy A. Lauer
ISBN-10: 1800612389
ISBN-13: 9781800612389
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2023
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d