sin tax

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Recent Examples on the Web And the roughly $6.25 million collected in sin tax revenues thus far this year is already spoken for. Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2020 Japanese officials, worried about shifting demographics and a sharp decline in sin tax revenue, have come up with an unusual fix to their fiscal woes: encouraging young people to drink more. Julia Mio Inuma, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022 About $8 million of the total price tag comes from Cleveland’s share of a countywide tax on alcohol and cigarette sales, known as the sin tax. Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 9 June 2022 Cuyahoga’s funding sources are even less certain, relying on annual revenues of $3 million from the bed tax, $2.5 million from the sin tax on alcohol and cigarettes, $2.5 million from the general fund, and about $300,000 from unspecified sources. Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 14 Nov. 2021 See all Example Sentences for sin tax 

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