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 ...

However, it certainly isn't an impossibility, as, around the world, several different airlines and airports already prohibit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The true origin of alcohol is lost in the mists of history but the first signs of it show up around 7000 B.C., when a fermented drink was produced from honey and wild yeasts in ancient China ...

causing sales – and liquor tax revenues – to plummet in the world’s third-largest economy. The government’s solution? Launch a contest to find new ways to encourage young people to drink more.

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 ...