Sentences with phrase «consumption taxes affect»

Does Mr. Brownback not factor in the fact that most people still need to spend a minimum amount of money to live in modern society (food, shelter, etc.), and it is those people who can not afford to spend more than a minimum that consumption taxes affect the most (which, as you noted, has often been an argument for income tax)?

How do consumption taxes affect, say, low or middle - income earners?

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Whether individuals are better off for this quid pro quo depends on how carbon taxes affect fuel consumption.

Dynamic modeling: Computer simulation of how tax policy or tax reform affects the economy taking into account how individuals, households, or firms alter their work, saving, investment, or consumption behavior, and how those effects feed back to affect tax revenues.

Although sales taxes on soft drinks in Ireland and France have both been associated with a reduction in consumption, the health effects have not been studied.15 16 No significant effect on obesity of US state sales taxes has been found, although the level of taxation there has probably been too low to affect health.13 17 The modelled estimates of the health effect of a 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in the United States vary, but such a tax has been predicted to reduce obesity by up to three percentage points.13 18 The effect of a sugar sweetened drink tax in the UK has not, until now, been formally estimated.

The ideal tax structure, it was suggested, would be a volumetric tax on all alcoholic beverages, applied at the same rate of tax per litre of alcohol across all beverages.6 However, the review did not provide any detailed estimates or modelling of the optimal tax rate on alcohol nor how this would affect government revenue, overall consumption or changes in the social costs from harmful consumption.

Taxpayers Alliance chief Jonathan Isaby said: «It is astonishing that the government is pressing ahead with this pernicious tax when the evidence clearly suggests that it will simply not affect consumption in any meaningful way.

When it comes to excess weight on a plane, Brits think we should all pay our fair share, and with body weight affecting fuel consumption in the same way as excess baggage, it's not surprising travellers want a «fat tax»

So yes, the gas tax on a substance that contains carbon, but because of the linkage to road spending it's not clear how that tax actually affects gas consumption trends.

Research on Personal Income Tax Affecting Structure of Resident Consumption Expenditure in China