Publications
Soaking the Poor: Discriminatory Taxation of Tobacco, Alcohol and Gambling
IPA BACKGROUNDER
Soaking the Poor is an apt description of the effects of very high taxes on a narrow range of products that tend to represent a greater share of the consumption of the less well-off. The taxes lift fully 10 per cent of the income of the poorest members of society, a matter that receives remarkably little attention from those claiming to represent their interests.