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Soaking the Poor: Discriminatory Taxation of Tobacco, Alcohol and Gambling

IPA BACKGROUNDER | Alan Moran

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...

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