by mcwebmaster | Dec 10, 2015 | Education, Education not tax, Ineffective on obesity, What others say: experts
When asked to comment on Jamie Oliver’s controversial ‘sugar tax’, Dutch experts expressed their doubts regarding the efficacy of such measure when it comes to improving public health. A tax on sugar barely makes sense because consumption may decrease only if prices...
by mcwebmaster | Aug 24, 2015 | Education not tax, EU Impact on Competitiveness Report
In January 2015, the city of Berkeley (United States, California) introduced a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages at a rate of one-cent-per-ounce with the clear objective of lowering consumption of thetargeted products. In a report issued in August 2015, economists John...
by mcwebmaster | Aug 10, 2015 | Ineffective consumer behaviour, Ineffective on obesity
In this article, from the health section of the Spectator magazine website, the author explains how, one and a half year after its abolishment, pro fat tax voices are trying to rewrite history, claiming the Danish tax was more effective than previously thought. In...
by mcwebmaster | Jul 14, 2015 | What others say: experts
A systematic scoping review of food tax-related studies, published by the University of Cambridge, exposes “a complex, limited and largely equivocal evidence base, suggesting that the public health case for using economic instruments to promote dietary and physical...
by mcwebmaster | May 20, 2015 | Ineffective consumer behaviour, Ineffective on obesity, Taxes unfair, What others say: government
On 18 May 2015, the first results from the study NutriNet Santé were published in Belgium. It was investigating the diet and lifestyles of 5.000 Belgian consumers. A dedicated working group in Flanders has been working on the report and concluded that introducing a...
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