How the Excise Tax on Tanning Beds Still Exists

In 2010, the Affordable Care Act introduced a 10 percent excise tax on indoor tanning services to help fund health care expansion. Fifteen years later, the tanning tax is still on the books — raising far less revenue than expected, hitting small salons disproportionately, and offering a fascinating case study in how obscure taxes survive political change. Lucas and Luna walk through the tax's trajectory: why it was chosen over a broader cosmetic surgery tax, how the indoor tanning industry fought back with membership models and bundled pricing, and why neither repeal efforts nor expansion attempts have succeeded. They also compare it to other 'sin taxes' on soda and sugar, and ask whether the tanning tax points to a larger truth about how narrow consumption taxes actually change behavior — or just create loopholes. #TanningTax #ExciseTax #AffordableCareAct #SinTax #IndoorTanning #TaxPolicy #BehavioralEconomics #SmallBusinessImpact #TaxLoopholes #CosmeticSurgeryTax #RevenueForecasting #Lobbying #TaxCompliance #PublicHealth #Economics #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TaxPolicyPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo