Smoke Screen : Estimating the Tax Pass-Through to Cigarette Prices in Pakistan /

This paper estimates the magnitude and speed of tax pass-through across tobacco products at different price points in Pakistan by using a novel dataset of monthly observations on cigarette prices in 50 cities during the period 2004-2015. The pass-through of cigarette taxes to retail prices is found...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cevik, Serhan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/179
Online Access:Full text available on IMF