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The effects of a fat tax on Czech households and government revenues
Chudá, Tatiana ; Janský, Petr (advisor) ; Macek, Petr (referee)
Health related food taxes have recently spread over the world as a tool for reducing obesity. Rising number of obese people and increased health care costs due to illnesses caused by unhealthy diet represent a burden to the public sector. Taxation of an unhealthy food seems to be a good solution to this problem, as it is expected to increase the consumer price, thus providing an incentive for the consumer to buy less of this food. I use detailed Czech Statistical Office data to estimate the impact of fat tax on households'expenditures and public budget revenues in the Czech Republic. As I do not take into account the possible change of consumers' behaviour, my estimates form the upper bound of impact of the tax. I simulate three types of excise taxes - ad valorem, specific per kilogram of product and specific per kilogram of fat, so that they all raise the same budget revenues, and I compare their effects on individual products and households.
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Fight against obesity in the EU
Nikolaeva, Anastasia ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Žamberský, Pavel (referee)
The thesis scrutinizes government activities in response to obesity epidemics in European Union. It reveals causes of obesity; it's social costs and possible solutions on national level. Fat tax, physical activity endorsement and food products label regulation are analysed and assessed based on their effectiveness in obesity reduction.
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Can application of any fat tax solve the obesity in the Czech Republic?
Nádvorníková, Iva ; Koblovský, Petr (advisor) ; Potužák, Pavel (referee)
Bachelor thesis focuses on so called "taxes from fat" and consequences of their application on some of the unhealthy and often consumed food in the Czech Republic. Because this tax is regressive, its main purpose should be the direct decrease of food consumption, not increase of national budget income. Therefore on some of the chosen products is calculated demand elasticity by use of regresive models and derived estimated impact of price increase for each of the products. Results indicate, that demand for all of the considered products in the Czech republic is not elastic and implementation of taxes from fat would have little impact on the reduction of unhealthy food consumption and almost no effect on decrease of obesity.
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Fat tax - the tool in the battle against obesity
Nedvídek, Václav ; Písař, Pavel (advisor) ; Kuhn, Petr (referee)
Object of this thesis is fat tax. Thesis analyses theoretically causes and effects of substantial increase of obesity in last decades. It looks on the justifiability of state's intervation to the market for the reason of increasing rate of obesity and analyses pretexts for this intervation. It suggests the ideal solution of the obesity problem. It denominates the main tools of state, by which state combat against obesity and focuses theoretically and practically on the fat tax. It analyses the benefits and costs of the fat tax and comments the effectiveness of this tax on the model studies. In last chapter it analyses dependence between the fat tax and the rate of obesity in the USA.
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