Corrective tax



After its 2019 election loss, the Australian Labor Party is considering dropping carbon pricing from its climate policy. In shaping its new policy, Labor should… Read More ›

What Now for Australian Labor’s Climate Change Policy? Learning From UK Climate Change Levy

The consumption of sugar and its adverse health outcomes are seldom out of the news. It is known that over-consumption of sugar is associated with… Read More ›

Should We Tax Sugar — and If So, How?

In 2014, Berkeley voted to pass “Measure D,” also known as a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) tax (or more commonly as a soda tax), becoming the… Read More ›

Lessons from Berkeley’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Election and Tax

It used to be common knowledge that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down – but times change. Once lyricised as an accessory… Read More ›

Should We Tax Legal (but Harmful) Pleasures?

Society often curses the two ‘unpleasant certainties’ in life, ‘death and taxes’. We rarely praise ‘life and taxes’, whereby taxes are recognized as instruments capable… Read More ›

From Dragon to Janus: Exploring Tax Policy for the Water-Energy Nexus

For a long time, a major concern of the public health lobby’s proposed sugar-sweetened beverage tax has been that it would unfairly punish disadvantaged groups.… Read More ›

A Sugar Tax Will Benefit Our Most Disadvantaged Groups

The Commonwealth Government levies specific taxes on tobacco products and alcoholic beverages because their consumption and abuse causes social harm. Often termed ‘sin’ taxes, they… Read More ›

Tobacco and Alcohol: A Taxing Double Standard

In a recent paper from the Grattan Institute, A sugary drinks tax: Recovering the community costs of obesity, Report No. 2016-15, Stephen Duckett and Hal… Read More ›

Grattan Institute’s Case for Sugar Tax Is Not Proven

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