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This article is about the new tax on soda in Berkeley, California. Apparently soda is now being taxed for 1c per ounce of soda. This tax (measure D) will levy a 1-cent-per-ounce tax on sodas and sugary drinks, and the money will go to the city's general fund. This measure wasn't intended to create funds for a specific purpose therefore it only needed the majority vote for it to pass. On the other hand, san francisco had a specific use for these excised taxes so it needed 2/3 vote for their proposition to pass (prop E). Furthermore, the excised tax for San Francisco would have been 2c per ounce of soda. This tax has been predicted to impact low income households since soda is predominantly consumed by them. This then leads to an overall increase in grocery bills, since the taxes aren't just levied on soda brands but also on grocery stores. This means that grocery stores may raise overall prices (of all goods) to pay the tax on soda.

This article is about the tax for medical-devices that was started 1.5 years ago. Author states that it should be repealed since it caused many job losses and "business environment" in U.S. deteriorates because of this tax. Also, because small companies that produces medical devices are having a hard time, since sales have dropped, major companies have become more powerful. Fınally, author states that as longer this tax is imposed, as longer it will stay.

Why does the medical-device excise tax still exist? The tax is a universally reviled Obamacare revenue-raiser, skimming 2.3 percent off the sales of medical devices. Outside liquor and tobacco, most Americans don't see excise taxes, which are levied on gross sales, irrespective of a company's profitability.

The Hungarian government recently approved taxes on a wide variety of goods including soap, advertising, foreign firms, unhealthy food, and more, and other taxes including Internet usage and tobacco are in the works. Prime Minister Viktor Orban imposed these taxes to help reduce Hungary's deficit, but he has been warned that they could impede growth and investment, as taxes shrink the market.

Puerto Rico's Senate is voting to increase tax on barrel of oil by 68% to increase govermnet revenue to $2.9 billion. In addition to that the excise tax will help solve the $73 billion in debt that most public coroporations are struggling to achieve as they are economically unstable at the moment. This is related to the topic of tax revenue and excise tax within this course

Between 2000 and 2013, governments increased cigarette excise taxes more than 120 times. Companies like Altria oppose tobacco excise tax increases because it create motivations for counterfeit cigarette business. This article analyzes the rationale behind arguments about cigarettes and try to get a sense of the impact of excise taxes on cigarettes in Massachusetts.

Berkeley becomes the first city in the United Sates to place excise tax on all sweetened beverages. This tax is hoping to reduce the amount of sweetened beverages purchased and create a decrease in the volume of sweetened beverages consumer by the population.

This article deals with the looming problem of increasing taxes in the US. When the government increases the taxes on goods, it makes purchasing goods very difficult for people with average incomes.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday he will dissolve the lower house Friday for a general election and postpone a planned consumption tax hike, citing the economic downturn following a tax increase in April. Abe told senior officials of his Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito that campaigning for the House of Representatives election will start Dec.

This article discusses how the Indian Government is clamping down on tobacco consumption by imposing higher taxes on cigarettes, chewing tobacco products, and unmanufactured tobacco. The increase in excise duty in the range of 11-72% for different types of cigarettes is the steepest in a decade. With this move, government taxes are projected to account for around 70% of the retail price of some cigarette types.

Article introduces a new way to fight obesity unhealthy food consumption ; by increasing the tax on fast food and sugary drinks and decreasing the tax of vegetables and fruits in order to encourage a healthy diet.

I think that this a great article in many ways. First of all, it shows how we can no look at economics in only one way and that nothing is actually certain because there are many determinants. One action can have exactly opposite results even. Secondly, I think that it is really interesting that a change would effect one group but not the other. I mean it is not actually "interesting" because it is a daily life that we can observe, but it was interesting to be reminded of that fact once more, related to what we have learned this week. Lastly, the strategy they have thought of to fight obesity really made sense to me. Nutrition is really important and it always seemed very irrational to me that all these junk food is more expensive than healthy food. It makes sense considering that different markets benefit from this situation, but still on something that relates to health, I believe that we should be more worried about society's benefit than companies benefits'. I believe that there may be exceptions to equilibrium, if it will benefit humanity.

The government of Brazil decided to place an excise tax on imported cars in order to help its local industry of motor vehicles. This increase in price is done to discourage foreign purchases and encourage local purchases.

The Australia federal government announced plans to increase the tax on fuel despite not having parliamentary approval for the measure. Due to the rise of tax on fuel, the price of fuel tends to increase next month. The Minister claims that the effect on petrol prices would be "modest". But the impact on our capacity to build a stronger more prosperous economy will be significant. The measure is expected to expected to raise the government $2.2 billion over four years and $19 billion over the next decade.

This article is about the excise tax is coming in 2018.

here is an article about how the government in malta is puttiing excise tax on petrol. because peytrol and disel were becoming too expensive, and they needed a price reduce. but some people are arguing that it still isnt low enought.

Interesting article. Talks about how if one would put a price on carbon or a tax on carbon emissions we would essentially cut down or discourage pollution.

This is indeed an interesting article, climate change is definitely changing our lives and governments are trying to control the impact of climate change through carbon taxation.

For more than two years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international economic organization of 34 of the world's richest countries,have been debating how to produce a global tax system that would eradicate the sort of tax avoidance that has seen Apple squirrel away more than $160 billion overseas.

To address the huge needs of African populations, companies must seek wealth creation and, along the way, create jobs, generate tax revenue and distribute purchasing power. If profit is essential to effective contribution of the common good, we need to agree on what kind of profit we are talking about. Summarising the history of capitalism with a broad brush, we can say that 1.0 version is characterised by the pursuit of wild profit, with no care for law nor morality. Capitalism 2.0 pursues legal profit and the 3.0 version emphasises legitimate profit.

RAMALLAH, February 22, 2015 (WAFA) - The West Bank overall economy has witnessed a decline in aggregate demand for the second consecutive month, mainly due to partial payment of public sector salaries, due to Israel's withholding of clearance revenues, according to the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA).

Brazil raised tariffs on 100 sectors last October to defend is declining industrial base, with fees of up to 25pc on machinery, iron and steel, plastics, chemicals, paper and wood products. It is now pursuing a full-blown "industrial policy" under its Plano Brasil Maior, with tax concessions for those who build plant locally.