Cigarettes: A cigarette is a product consumed via smoking and manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco leaves and reconstituted tobacco‚ combined with other additives‚ then rolled or stuffed into a paper-wrapped cylinder (generally less than 120 mm in length and 10 mm in diameter). Approximately 6 trillion cigarettes are produced globally each year by the tobacco industry‚ smoked by over 1.1 billion people‚ which is more than one-sixth of the world’s total population. Top 10 countries
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“Smoking Cigarettes isn’t the Solution” I. INTRODUCTION: A. Attention: What happens when you let smoking tobacco become an addiction? How can it affect you and relatives around you? Why should you quit smoking? B. Purpose: Today I will discuss with you the impacts smoking tobacco products can have on you and how what your habit can’t affect your family members. C. Central Idea: People should quit smoking and using tobacco. D. Preview of Main Points: 1. Main Point: Need: How
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Tax in Maldives Over the few years Maldives economy has grown very much. Various opportunities have been open to investors and small scale business‚ in Maldives and the income that the government get also has increase in the past years. The tax has also effects many house holds and business. With the changes of laws and regulations there are many new taxes and royalties that are taken in from the public and the business organization. In this essay I am going to highlight the effects of the
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Tax Avoidance Analysis Tax Avoidance is a legally manipulation for the corporations to lower their tax bill by structuring transactions‚ is also called tax planning. Different with Tax Evasion‚ the Tax Evasion is Criminal and completely illegal. And in generally‚ company which have more profit should have higher tax rate‚ but with the growth of the company‚ many tax avoidance strategy were used by management as result of minimize the tax bills and also without obey the law‚ There are 3 strategies
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selling price of a product‚ so it increases the firm’s cost of production and shift the supply curve for the product vertically upwards by the amount of the tax. There are two types of indirect taxes: 1) a specific tax : this is a fixed amount of tax per unit imposed upon a product and 2) an ad valorem tax: this is where the tax is a percentage of the selling price. When an indirect tax is imposed on a product it affects both consumers and producers. Part of the tax is paid by consumers and another
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Indirect Tax Indirect taxes include value added tax‚ a range of excise duties on oil‚ tobacco and alcohol and fuel duty. VAT is levied on the sale of goods by registered businesses. Businesses add VAT to the price they charge when they provide goods and services to business customers - and non-business customers. There are different VAT rates‚ depending on the goods or services that are being provided. At the moment there are three rates: standard rate – 20%‚ reduced rate - 5 %‚ zero rate -
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Added taxes like cigarettes and soda are not helping improve our schools as promised. Our schools still look the same with no support‚ extra-curricular activities. The tax didn’t change anything for our schools. Our books still old and falling apart. People from Pepsi quit their job because they thought they weren’t getting paid enough. The soda tax should affect their paycheck. This is really an outrage and it is affecting not only the jobs at Pepsi Co. also it is effecting the stores who are not
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Q 1. Cigarettes are often cited in economics texts as an example of a particular type of market failure. Identify that market failure‚ and illustrate the failure using an appropriate diagram. Ans. Cigarettes represents a market failure of externatilities. They are sited as negative externality as they affect the wellbeing of the bystander and the person neither pays nor receives any compensation for that negative effect. A smoker enjoys the puff of the smoke and the bystander inhales the fumes
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As the end of the year 2012 approached‚ the passing of the Sin Tax Bill grew into being the “talk of the town” – or perhaps‚ of the entire country. On the 20th of December of the same year‚ President Noynoy Aquino finally signed Republic Act No. 10351‚ better known as the Sin Tax Reform Act of 2012 which was implemented on January of the year 2013.The sin tax law is expected to raise 30 billion pesos ($750 million) which will be used for the health care services for over 5 million poor families just
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of UK cigarette consumption. In the UK‚ cigarette consumption is 25% higher than the Europe Union average‚ The table on this slide presents percentage of smoking 20 or more cigarettes a day‚ on average‚ take up 10% of men‚ and 6% of women. While‚ in young group‚ 26% of young men and 25% of young women aged 16-19 were light smokers‚ but only 4% and 3% respectively were heavy smokers. Consumer spending on tobacco products in 2008 amounted to an estimated £13.1 billion‚ 90% of this on cigarettes. Tax
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