No coffee bean ends up in German espresso machines that hasn’t already passed through a “tax warehouse”. This is what the law requires, because the tax authorities in this country levy a coffee tax on this popular agricultural product. This tax could of course be levied in various places: at the supermarket checkout, in the Tchibo branch or in the café. But for the sake of simplicity, the state creates a bottleneck through which every kilo of coffee has to pass before it ends up on the shelf or in the cup – the tax warehouse. And something similar could happen with another agricultural product in the future: meat.
This is how a meat tax could work – economics
