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Alberto Alemanno and Ignacio Carreño
Fat Taxes in the EU Between Fiscal Austerity and the Fight Against Obesity
| European Journal of Risk Regulation 4/2011: pp. 571-576 |
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To discourage unhealthy eating and limit the population’s
intake of fatty foods, thereby alleviating the
current obesity “epidemic”, an increasing number
of countries across the industrialised world are considering
levying taxes on unhealthy food.1 A “fat
tax” may be defined as a tax or surcharge placed
upon fattening foods, beverages or individuals with
the aim to decrease consumption of foods that are
linked to obesity.2 This is not an entirely new idea
– some theorists, starting with Arthur Pigou, a 20thcentury
English economist, have long presented the
arguments for imposing special taxes on goods and
services whose prices do not reflect the true social
cost of their consumption.3 Examples of Pigouvian
taxes are duties on cigarettes, alcohol, gambling and |
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