To what extent do excise taxes affect Malawi’s cigarette trade gap with Kenya and South Africa?

Background: While economic theory supports the perception that cigarette taxes incentivise producers and users to identify ways of evading the tax, leading to the smuggling of cigarettes through a profit-maximising mechanism, empirical evidence has produced mixed findings. Aim: This study bridges t...

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Main Authors: Michael Masiya, Zurika Robinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2023-01-01
Series:South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences
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Online Access:https://sajems.org/index.php/sajems/article/view/4605