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Cover of: Are Excise Taxes on Beverages Fully Passed Through to Prices? The Danish Evidence
U. Michael Bergman, Niels Lynggård Hansen

Are Excise Taxes on Beverages Fully Passed Through to Prices? The Danish Evidence

Section: Articles
Volume 75 (2019) / Issue 4, pp. 323-356 (34)
Published 08.08.2019
DOI 10.1628/fa-2019-0010
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Summary
This paper studies tax shifting of excise taxes on alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages in Denmark. We use a unique data set collected by Statistics Denmark focusing on six episodes of tax changes: three tax cuts and three tax hikes. We find that excise taxes on beer and soda are overshifted but those on liquor are undershifted. We also find that the pass-through is inversely related to the size of the tax change and that there are asymmetric effects of tax changes on soda. Finally, the tax pass-through on beer and soda is an increasing function of the distance to the German border.