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Sin Tax: How Governments Use Higher Prices to Influence Harmful Consumption
A sin tax is a form of excise tax applied to selected goods or activities that governments consider harmful to individuals, costly to society, or associated with wider public-interest concerns. Common examples include tobacco, alcohol, gambling, vaping products, recreational cannabis where permitted by law, and in some jurisdictions, sugar-sweetened beverages. Although the term “sin tax”…