Empirical measurement of illicit tobacco trade in the Philippines
Cigarette smuggling reduces the price of cigarettes, thwarts youth access restrictions, reduces government revenue, and undercuts the ability of taxes to reduce consumption. The tobacco industry often opposes increases to tobacco taxes on the claim that greater taxes induce more smuggling. To date,...
| Published in: | Philippine Review of Economics Vol. LI, no. 2 (Dec. 2014), 83-96 |
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| Language: | English |
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2014
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