Corrective Tax



Governments use policy levers to incentivise desired population behaviours. ‘Sticks’ punish ‘undesirable’ behaviours, while ‘carrots’ reward favoured behaviours. Within Australia’s private health insurance system, tax… Read More ›

The Stick or the Carrot: Which Is More (Cost-)Effective for Supporting Private Health Insurance Coverage?

Carbon taxes can be a cost-effective way to address climate change. However, for successful implementation of carbon taxes, they must be accepted by the public.… Read More ›

Assessing Public Support for Carbon Taxes in Australia

In 2019, we set out to undertake a structured literature review on the topic of water taxes. For a topic that has such global significance,… Read More ›

Water Taxes: A Systematic Literature Review With Application to Australia and New Zealand

In 2008, the Australian Government increased the excise tax on premixed alcoholic drinks, or alcopops, so that they were taxed at the same rate as… Read More ›

Examining Beverage-Specific Trends in Youth Drinking in Australia Before and After the Implementation of the ‘Alcopops Tax’

Climate change and the impact of pollution on our planet are affecting all of us on a daily basis. The motor vehicles we drive pollute… Read More ›

Influencing Consumers to Choose Low-Emission Motor Vehicles

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

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