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> This is like if politicians were shocked that raising cigarette taxes resulted in a drop in cigarette sales. they go back and forth, at their convenience, on
by sigstoat 6y ago
> This is like if politicians were shocked that raising cigarette taxes resulted in a drop in cigarette sales.
they go back and forth, at their convenience, on whether or not taxing things causes less of the thing to be produced.
- lostlogin 6y ago> whether or not taxing things causes less of the thing to be produced. It causes less to be consumed and this is part of New Zealand’s strategy to make the country (tobacco) smoke free. The numbers shown below are a little misleading as the black market increases as the tax rises, as the link notes. ‘The collective impact of the initiatives that make up New Zealand’s tobacco control programme, including tobacco excise tax, is having the desired impact on smoking rates which are trending down. Among Māori, daily smoking prevalence fell from 39.2 percent to 37.7 percent (1.5 percent) between 2006/7 and 2011/12, but during the period of annual tobacco excise increases they fell from 37.7 percent to 31.2 percent in 2017/18 (6.5 percent) –a substantial acceleration in the decrease in prevalence.’ https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/information-release/cabinet-paper-1-january-2020-tobacco-excise-tax-increase-redacted.pdf https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/informatio...