Update on beverage & junk food taxes around the world
The new ultra-conservative Israeli administration immediately canceled a soft drink tax (and a tax on disposable plasticware) without any public consultation and was criticized [...]
Sugar & sweetened beverage tax updates: Latin America
As lifestyles and diets evolved, especially in developing nations, death rates due to noncommunicable diseases (NCD) such as diabetes and heart disease have continued [...]
Mexico’s HFCS imports down as shutdown impact lingers
In early 2020, before the pandemic upended things, Mexico seemed to be on track to import usual volumes of high fructose corn syrup, at [...]
U.S. East Coast sugar taxes update
For 2019, the sugar tax and other beverage regulations were the big story that wasn't. Instead, the two-cent-per-ounce tax, cup-size limits for food service, [...]
Updates on beverage & sugar taxes in Latin America & the Caribbean
Sweetened beverage sales in Jamaica, one study suggested, fell by more than 4 percent as a result of a 10 percent tax on sugar-sweetened [...]
Updates on sugar & beverage taxes in North America
In the U.S., Connecticut’s governor is backing a proposed sweetener beverage tax of 1.5 cents per ounce—part of a series of taxes on e-cigarettes [...]
South African parliament passes sugar beverage tax
As part of a new revenue bill, South Africa’s National Council of Provinces approved a levy of 2.1 cents per gram of sugar, nearly [...]