Designing taxes to discourage harmful behaviour

  • Rebekah Stroud

Published on 8 November 2019

In this Facebook Live event, IFS Research Economist Rebekah Stroud looked at the economics of "sin taxes", answering questions such as how high or low should these taxes be, and who bears the burden of them?

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In this Facebook Live event (as part of the 2019 ESRC Festival of Social Science), IFS Research Economist Rebekah Stroud looked at the economics of "sin taxes", answering questions such as how high or low should these taxes be, and who bears the burden of them?

You can download the slides here, and watch the video below.

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Rebekah Stroud

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IFS

Suggested citation

Stroud, R. (2019). 'Designing taxes to discourage harmful behaviour' [Presentation]. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/designing-taxes-discourage-harmful-behaviour (accessed: 24 April 2024).

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Impact Acceleration Account 2019-23

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