Sentences with phrase «alcohol taxes»

The report also calls for significantly higher alcohol taxes and tighter restrictions on alcohol sales.

Alcohol tax reform is particularly tricky for the most disadvantaged Australians.

«In 2008 the government raised alcohol duty by six per cent in real terms and introduced a duty escalator that automatically increased alcohol taxes by two per cent above inflation every year thereafter,» he said.

A team of UF Health researchers discovered that fatal alcohol - related car crashes in Illinois declined 26 percent after a 2009 increase in alcohol tax.

Bootleggers extraordinaire, the film follows the three of them and their «immortal», «invincible» ways as they fight to survive against the ATU (Alcohol Tax Unit) and police.

They decided to focus on selecting bonds issued by the government of Puerto Rico and its public corporations, which could include infrastructure bonds backed by alcohol taxes and general obligation bonds.

There is strong evidence that higher alcohol taxes reduce binge drinking and drunk driving deaths, the National Academies panel said.

And thirdly, revenue from alcohol taxes can pay for interventions such as advertising the problems of GBV, and funding refuges for battered women.

However, little is known about how alcohol policies, which include alcohol taxes and the number of places licensed to sell alcohol, relate to alcohol - related homicides.

A year ago, General Washington's Secret Stash was about to be distributed nationally, having already received approval from the federal Alcohol Tax and Trade Bureau.

Our current alcohol tax system, branded «a mess» by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, perversely incentivises the production of cheap, high strength products.

Iain Duncan Smith's social justice policy group called for higher alcohol tax last year as a way of discouraging consumption and for funding more treatment of people with addiction problems.

In particular, it suggests that the external cost to society, which is measured by the Cabinet Office report, is a «lowest common denominator» which is most likely to support a consensus in guiding alcohol tax policy.

This argument is extended in last week's IAS report, Dereliction of Duty: Are UK alcohol taxes too low?

«If policymakers are looking to address dangerous drivers on our roads and reduce the number of fatalities, they should reverse the trend of allowing inflation to erode alcohol taxes.»

«Similar alcohol tax increases implemented across the country could prevent thousands of deaths from car crashes each year,» said Alexander C. Wagenaar, Ph.D., a professor in the department of health outcomes and policy at the UF College of Medicine.

Alcoholic beverages have become so inexpensive because alcohol tax rates have declined substantially, after taking inflation into account.

Increasing state alcohol taxes could prevent thousands of deaths a year from car crashes, say University of Florida Health researchers, who found alcohol - related motor vehicle crashes decreased after taxes on beer, wine and spirits went up in Illinois.

But alcohol taxes across the nation have declined in inflation - adjusted terms at both federal and state levels, and those taxes don't cover the costs of alcohol - fueled harms, the report noted.

-- Alcohol Alcohol taxes one organ that does so much good for you on your detox: your liver.

Especially given that alcoholism is a rising problem in the U.S. (a recent study indicates that 1 in 8 Americans are problem drinkers), which may provide tax - hungry politicians cover to raise alcohol taxes in the name of improving public health.

Alcohol tax measures are floating around the Legislature, but their prospects are murky at best.

Examples of adult alcohol policies include higher alcohol taxes, having fewer outlets licensed to sell alcohol, bans on happy hours, restricted hours of alcohol sales, and laws prohibiting service to intoxicated adults.

«Significant reduction in fatal car crashes after increase in alcohol taxes.»

Commenting on the findings of this report, IAS Chief Executive Katherine Brown said: «The desire to support pubs has often been used as a reason to resist policies to reduce alcohol - related harm, including minimum unit pricing, increasing alcohol taxes and stricter drink - drive laws.

The alcohol industry wants the Abbott government to reform alcohol taxes, and claims it would be in the nation's interest.

The big end of the alcohol industry wants the Abbott government to reform alcohol taxes, and claims it would be in the nation's interest.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) rejected an attempt to exempt people buying goods in countries where tobacco and alcohol taxes are low from paying UK excise duty.

Moreover, recent cuts to alcohol taxes will cost the public purse # 2.9 billion.

«While our study confirms what dozens of earlier studies have found — that an increase in alcohol taxes reduces drinking and reduces alcohol - related health problems, what is unique is that we identified that alcohol taxes do in fact impact the whole range of drinking drivers, including extremely drunk drivers,» Wagenaar said.

To control for multiple other factors that can affect motor vehicle crash rates, such as traffic safety programs, weather and economic conditions, the researchers compared the number of alcohol - related fatal crashes in Illinois with those unrelated to alcohol during the same time period as well as alcohol - related fatal crashes in Wisconsin, which did not change its alcohol taxes.

Effects of domestic violence policies, alcohol taxes and police staffing levels on intimate partner homicide in large US cities.

Not only do they have to protect their business from the Alcohol Tax Unit, but also thieves, cops, and attempts at exploitation from county officials.

When Prohibition ended in 1933, the Bureau of Prohibition was transferred back to the Treasury and renamed the Alcohol Tax Unit (ATU).

Now Brown - Forman has adapted to a world of high alcohol taxes, but there is always the risk that in the future, cash - strapped local and state governments, perhaps desperate to make up their public pension shortfalls, start hiking all manner of taxes.

Expensive due to the alcohol tax laws, your wallet may suffer a pricey hangover the morning after, although the experience is well worth it.

A 25 - cent per - drink increase in California's alcohol tax.

The American Public Health Association's annual general meeting held in New Orleans attracted a large amount of attention on issues from Ebola to alcohol taxes, including 16,000 tweets.

And any alcohol tax reforms intended to reduce the gap will have to be discussed with Aboriginal Australians.