According to the organization, at least 148 countries around the world have applied excise taxes to alcoholic beverages at the national level. If your idea of relaxing at the end of the day ...

GENEVA – Countries need to increase their taxes on alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Dec 5, saying too few states were using tax to incentivise ...

LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation urged governments on Tuesday to increase taxes on alcoholic drinks and impose them on products that are currently exempt, such as wine in ...

By Vivian Nereim Dubai started the new year by suspending its 30 percent tax ... around one third now. That would require making Saudi Arabia a more appealing place for foreigners to live. While ...

The legislature has been willing to increase tobacco taxes, but the public doesn’t have the same consensus around alcohol, he said. “I think there were goals with taxes to get people off ...

Countries need to increase their taxes on alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, saying too few states were using tax to incentivise healthier behaviours.

Alcohol makers in Turkey have faced an increasingly onerous tax burden and other restrictions under the rule of President Tayyip Erdogan, including a ban on online sales, a prohibition on ...