The future of health taxes : helping it happen

Vigo, Angeli and Lauer, Jeremy A and Sassi, Franco and Soucat, Agnes; (2023) The future of health taxes : helping it happen. In: Health Taxes. Health Taxes . World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 497-512. ISBN 9781800612396 (https://doi.org/10.1142/9781800612396_0017)

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Abstract

This book has been designed to meet the needs of a diverse audience, serving two main purposes. The first is to help those who wish to establish a case for health taxes, providing economic arguments and empirical evidence in support of their adoption. The second purpose is to set out key considerations in the design and implementation of health taxes, conveying sufficient technical knowledge to inform key choices faced by decision-makers in policy development