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On the Costs of Excise Taxes and Income Taxes in the UK

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This paper develops an analytical framework for estimating the marginal excess burden (MEB) of taxes on gasoline, alcohol, tobacco, and labor in the UK, accounting for externalities and interactions among the taxes. Under most scenarios the MEB of the gasoline tax exceeds that for the labor tax, the MEB of the alcohol tax is roughly the same, while the MEB of the tobacco tax is lower than for the labor tax. These preliminary findings suggest that the gasoline tax may be too high, the alcohol tax might be about right, and the tobacco tax might be too low.

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Parry, I.W.H. On the Costs of Excise Taxes and Income Taxes in the UK. International Tax and Public Finance 10, 281–304 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023839614668

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