ArticleRevista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health2017
Generating revenue by raising tobacco taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Article in Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Sin taxes and their effect on consumption, revenue generation and health improvement: a systematic literature review in Latin America.Health policy and planning · 2021Pooled it
- Modelling the expected impact of cigarette tax and price increases under Vietnam's excise tax law 2015-2020.Tobacco control · 2021Article
- Tobacco control and Healthy China 2030.Tobacco control · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe objective of this study was to determine if raising tobacco taxes in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region will generate extra tax revenue, even at outer edges of the sensitivity analysis, with relatively high price elasticities of demand for cigarettes.
methodsA model of the cigarette market in 31 LAC countries was developed using cigarette tax, price, and retail sales data for 2014. It was then assumed that all countries increased the excise tax by 50% per pack. The model incorporated 12 studies from the LAC region that estimate the price elasticity of demand for cigarettes to quantify the expected impact of this tax increase on sales and tax revenues.
resultsThe tax increase would raise cigarette prices by an average of 28% across the region. The volume of cigarette sales would decrease by 7% (confidence interval (CI): 3-11). Cigarette tax revenue would increase by 32% (CI: 27-37), representing an extra US$ 7 050 million (CI: 5 984-8 086) in revenue. Almost all countries showed increases in tax revenue, even at outer edges of the sensitivity analysis.
conclusionsThese findings confirm that the expected benefits of raising tobacco taxes are robust across the LAC region. Countries in the region should have confidence that raising tobacco tax rates will generate extra tax revenues.
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