sin taxes
Liquor, tobacco duties
Sin taxes are levies on goods considered harmful or morally questionable—typically alcohol, tobacco, and gambling.
The rationale combines revenue generation with discouraging consumption: The state raised sin taxes on cigarettes to fund healthcare.
Critics note these taxes fall disproportionately on lower-income people.
Some jurisdictions extend the concept to sugary drinks or cannabis.
- exciseRemove by cutting
- levyCompulsory government charge
- externalitiesUncompensated effects on others
- sodaCarbonated soft drink
- liquorDistilled alcoholic drink
tobacco · vice · budget gap · cigarette · unintended consequences · paternalism · behavioral economics · revenue · imposition · sweetened · smoke · duty · candy · health · beer · surcharge · price · indulgence
- chargesfees, surcharges, levies, service charges, service fees
- US TaxationIRS, withholding, deductions, income brackets, AMT
- food policyfood policy, food stamps, food aid, food assistance, food security
- government chargescustoms duties, import duties, fees, tolls, levies
- Indirect TaxesVAT, customs duty, import duty, tariff, import tariff
- regulationsrules, rule, regulations, regulation, law
sin taxessubsidies
Financial aid from government
tax incentives · tax credits · tax breaks · tax deductions · tax exemptions
sin taxesincome tax
Government charge on earnings
wealth tax · property tax · payroll tax · capital gains tax · estate tax