The introduction of a sugar tax, increasing the price of fizzy drinks and other products high in sugar content, has had only a limited, moderate effect in shifting people’s dietary habits and behaviours, according to a new study.
Fresh research from an international team of economists published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, focused on the impact of a sugar tax on people’s shopping baskets comparing customer spending in Catalonia in Spain (where a tax had been introduced), with the rest of the country (where it had not been) from May 2016 to April 2018.
A sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) tax was in introduced in Catalonia in May 2017, but not for the rest of Spain. The tax has a tiered structure whereby the rate increases dependent on the amount of sugar contained within a product. The Catalonian approach mirrors that of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy, which came into force on 6 April 2018. [Read more…] about Sugar tax in Spain has led to only tiny reduction in calories in shopping basket
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