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(Old news - 2022) Japanese government ran a campaign attempting to promote alcohol consumption amongst young people in attempt to increase alcohol tax revenue (www.theguardian.com)
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The Sake Viva! campaign, which is being run by the National Tax Agency (NTA), asks 20- to 39-year-olds to come up with proposals to help revitalise the popularity of alcoholic drinks, which have fallen out of favour because of lifestyle changes during the coronavirus pandemic and among young people.

Taxes on alcohol accounted for 1.7% of Japan’s tax revenue in 2020, down from 3% in 2011 and 5% in 1980.

There was a particularly steep decline in beer consumption, with sales volume down 20% to less than 1.8bn litres.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 14 points 5 days ago

This is the moral hazard of tying revenue to something bad.

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