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Impacts of Health Taxes on the Attainment of the SDGs

In: HEALTH TAXES Policy and Practice

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  • Norman Maldonado-Vargas
  • Blanca Llorente

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The reduction in consumption of harmful products triggered by increases in health taxes has effects in multiple development dimensions beyond health. We firstly review the evidence on health taxes’ effects on Sustainable Development (SD), and secondly, we provide guidance for policymakers on how to make a stronger case for health taxes by emphasising their role as policy instruments for development. We show that the effects on SD go beyond income inequalities or the progressive/regressive nature of health taxes. In general, health taxes positively affect the three systems that sustain human life, namely, the global society, the earth’s physical system and the world’s economy. Despite the need for more research and for stronger monitoring and evaluation of health taxes, we provide enough evidence to support a strong case for health taxes from a SD perspective. Reframing health taxes with a SD perspective in all stages of the policy cycle has enormous potential to gain wider societal support for progress on global uptake and increase of health taxes.

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  • Norman Maldonado-Vargas & Blanca Llorente, 2023. "Impacts of Health Taxes on the Attainment of the SDGs," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Jeremy A Lauer & Franco Sassi & Agnès Soucat & Angeli Vigo (ed.), HEALTH TAXES Policy and Practice, chapter 7, pages 163-224, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781800612396_0007
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    Keywords

    Health Tax; Health Taxes; Tobacco Tax; Alcohol Tax; Sugary Drinks Tax; SSB Tax; Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax; Fiscal Policy; Health; Non-communicable Diseases; NCDs; Health Financing; Public Finance; Public Health;
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    JEL classification:

    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • K32 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law

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