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Are Excise Taxes on Beverages Fully Passed Through to Prices? The Danish Evidence

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  • U. Michael Bergman
  • Niels Lynggård Hansen

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This paper studies tax shifting of excise taxes on alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages in Denmark. We use a unique data set collected by Statistics Denmark focusing on six episodes of tax changes: three tax cuts and three tax hikes. We find that excise taxes on beer and soda are overshifted but those on liquor are undershifted. We also find that the pass-through is inversely related to the size of the tax change and that there are asymmetric effects of tax changes on soda. Finally, the tax pass-through on beer and soda is an increasing function of the distance to the German border.

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  • U. Michael Bergman & Niels Lynggård Hansen, 2019. "Are Excise Taxes on Beverages Fully Passed Through to Prices? The Danish Evidence," FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 75(4), pages 323-356.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:finarc:urn:doi:10.1628/fa-2019-0010
    DOI: 10.1628/fa-2019-0010
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    Keywords

    tax incidence; excise tax; alcoholic beverages; nonalcoholic beverages;
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    JEL classification:

    • H22 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Incidence
    • D40 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - General

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