The Sin Taxes Impact on Violence Incidents
Abstract
In the old times, governments had gone to ban the consumption of certain goods and services that’s considered as sin, and had resorted to heavy penalties. After then, releasing of aware of states to taxing these goods and services had changed view point of states. Recently, discussion has begun if governments levy extra taxes on these goods and services to reduce consumption or to obtain more revenue. In this study, the issue of whether or not high sin taxes is really effective in achieving social purposes has been discussed. Violence incidents (domestic violence) have been taken into account in terms of social purpose effectiveness which is closely related to sin taxes. For this, changes in tendency of consumption, and depending of using of such goods in parallel with increasing tax rates have been studied in accordence of (domestic) violence.
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