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This article mentions how the Colorado regulators are seeking to impose an excise tax on the upcoming sale of cannabis. They need to figure out the right percentage to use for the tax, but since they don't have previous sales figures, they will have to do further market research to find the optimal percentage tax to put on marijuana.

In Maryland people get excise tax credit when buying an electric vehicle. This has increased the quantity demanded.

This article is about the exise tax revenue on tabacco in october of 2013.

This article discusses the effects of price ceilings and floors on greenhouse gas emissions and its potential drawbacks with a slower economic growth of the state. This is a good example on considerations of instating an excise tax, because it would reduce emissions, but lower economic growth.

This article discusses Mexican plans to implement a 5% percentage tax on fattening foods, a 16% percentage tax on chewing gum and a 8 cents specific tax on sodas. This is a fine example in which a government is using excise taxes as a means of discouraging consumption of a product that is harmful for one's health.

This is a very old article (1993) that talks about how the taxes should be set on the packs of cigarettes. The goal is to pay for the same amount of the increase of medical attention demand in the article as it seems.

This article is about how Starbucks and other major companies have been avoiding tax payments. It explains that though tax avoidance is legal, it is done through dubious transactions and fraudulent reports. This has occurred because of the high tax placed on coffee by the government.

This article talks about how Apple seemingly tried to avoid high taxes by filling returns through a subsidiary because taxes were lower. The government and tax officials will have to take on a better control of those companies under their taxes.

The mayor of Chicago, USA, Rahm Emanuel, wants to place a specific tax on cigarette packs, 75c per unit more than before. Though he sais he is doing it in the city's best interest: to have more city funds available for low-income children with vision problems, and other projects that require funding.

Domestic producers were harmed because America was putting high subsidies on shrimp's importet from Malaysia, China, Ecuador, India and Vietnam. It was now decided to put anti-subsidies on shrimps to help producers inside the own country

The PlayStation 4, which goes on sale in Latin America on Nov. 29, runs only $399 in the US - but for the average Brazilian, it will cost two months' salary. It's not easy being a gamer in Brazil.