Keywords
public health
levy on foodstuffs
allocative function of taxes
stimulus function of taxes
healthcare system:
healthcare system
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The research presented in this article was undertaken in connection with the recent activity of the Polish legislator, who introduced a levy on foodstuffs into the Public Health Act. This levy is intended to be one of the additional sources of state revenue to be spent on improving public health. The aim of the presented research was to verify the hypothesis that the levy on foodstuffs is an implementation of the sin tax concept existing in the doctrine of tax law. During the research, a critical analysis was used, including a linguistic analysis of legal acts. In addition, an analysis of the body of financial law doctrine on the concept of sin tax was performed. The present research leads to the conclusion that the levy on foodstuffs introduced into the Polish legal order constitutes a form of sin tax and performs both the stimulative and allocative functions of tax law.
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