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Health taxes Archives - P4H Network
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Brazil exempts taxes on ultra-processed food
Brazil exempts taxes on ultra-processed food
Brazil

Brazil’s exemption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) from a selective tax risks worsening non-communicable diseases. Evidence links UPFs to chronic illnesses, highlighting the need for stronger fiscal measures. The Lancet reports that Brazil's decision to exclude...

Big Tobacco Continues to Thrive off Health-Harming Products
Big Tobacco Continues to Thrive off Health-Harming Products

Tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) industries showed strong financial performance during and after the pandemic, despite initial setbacks. Experts urge raising health taxes to curb consumption and offset industry resistance. This blog post was first...

Tobacco taxation in Latin America and the Caribbean

The OECD report, Tobacco Taxation in Latin America and the Caribbean, delves into the pressing health, economic, and social challenges posed by tobacco use in the region. It highlights significant opportunities for reforming tobacco tax policies to reduce consumption,...

Centre for Global Development on scaling up health taxes in 2025
Centre for Global Development on scaling up health taxes in 2025

The Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health highlights that raising health taxes could save 50 million lives and raise $3.7 trillion, emphasizing the importance of strategic political leadership. The blog post 2025: A Crucial Year for Scaling Up Health Taxes discusses...

2025 Irish national budget allocates record funding for health
2025 Irish national budget allocates record funding for health
Ireland

The newly released 2025 Irish national budget includes substantial increases in funding for health.  While direct funding to reduce costs to patients is explicit for some aspects of women’s health, this public funding will also benefit patients who use the health...

The task force on fiscal policy for health report 2024

The Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health has released a report emphasising the urgent need to raise health taxes to combat the global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Co-chaired by Mike Bloomberg, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados, and economist...

Ecuador’s court orders tax changes to comply with right to health
Ecuador

Ecuador's justice system has ordered the elimination of a supreme decree that reduced and even eliminated specific taxes on ultra-processed foods, tobacco, alcohol, weapons, and plastics, to ensure compliance with the right to health. This elimination underscores the...

Health policy analysis for health taxes: Lessons from Nigeria
Nigeria

This policy brief addresses the significant role health taxes can play in combating non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, which claim 41 million lives annually. By taxing harmful products such as tobacco, alcohol, and...

Technical note on Social Health Insurance
Mozambique

This note presents the characteristics of public health insurance systems and analyzes their characteristics in relation to Universal Health Coverage in Mozambique. Compulsory public insurance systems represent an improvement in access and financial protection in...