Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/318047 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] International Tax and Public Finance [ISSN:] 1573-6970 [Volume:] 31 [Issue:] 5 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 1388-1412
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
Portugal introduced a sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) tax in 2017. This study uses unique administrative accounting data for all SSB producers/importers in Portugal, and an event study design with bottled water firms as the primary comparison group, to assess the causal impacts of the tax on multiple firm-level outcomes. We find a 6.8% average decrease in domestic SSB sales, relative to bottled water. The soda tax hindered SSB firms’ financial health, namely net income, ability to convert receivables into cash, and liabilities. SSB producers/importers did not decrease wages, cut jobs, or modify their workforce toward higher R&D capacity. Forgone corporate income tax appears negligible compared to the government revenue generated by the tax itself.
Subjects: 
Sugar-sweetened beverages tax
Soda sales
Soda manufacturers
Firm-level outcomes
Industry responses
Eventstudy
JEL: 
H25
L20
L66
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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