The British government needs to make people healthier
Rachel Reeves to announce milkshake tax
Budget to end sugar tax exemption for dairy drinks as Chancellor scrambles to fill hole in public finances
And grab more money.
Rachel Reeves is expected to announce a tax on milkshakes in the Budget later this month as part of efforts to make the public healthier.
The Chancellor is preparing to confirm she will end the exemption that milk-based drinks currently have from taxes on sugary beverages.
At present, the Soft Drinks Industry Levy applies to drinks such as Coca-Cola and Irn Bru. Producers pay at least 18p per litre on soft drinks containing 5g or more of sugar per 100ml.
As well as ending the dairy exemption, the Chancellor is planning to cut the threshold to 4g per 100ml. The changes will take effect in April 2027 and raise between £50m and £100m under current Budget plans.
Obviously, making people less fat helps with stopping ‘climate change’.
“More than seven in 10 soft drinks sold in the UK are already low or no sugar, and most are now at the limits of what’s technically possible to reformulate.
“Moving the goalposts again, at a time when families are under immense financial pressure, would add £220m in costs and push up shelf prices by as much as five per cent – all for a calorie reduction equivalent to half a grape per person each day.
Really, just like the photo shows, and the subhead shows, the government is trying to raise more money due to their idiotic spending rather than tightening the government belt, spending the money wisely, booting out all the illegals and fake asylum seekers who suck up taxpayer funds, stop giving stupid amounts of taxpayer money to scam NGOs, and so forth. If we are having money problems in our own lives we can’t simply start taxing other people to finance that, right?
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