Sugar Tax



Worldwide, obesity has nearly tripled since 1975 because of changes in diet and physical activity patterns. This is a cause for concern as overweight and… Read More ›

Use of a Virtual Supermarket to Study the Effectiveness of Health-Related Food Taxes and Subsidies

Every year, 13 million deaths globally are attributed to unhealthy diets, excessive weight and obesity, costing the global economy over US$2 trillion or 3% of… Read More ›

Why Doesn’t Australia Have a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax?

Sin taxes are taxes placed on goods deemed socially undesirable. By raising its price, the expectation is that affected individuals will consume less. Sin taxes… Read More ›

Getting Sugar Back? Soda Taxes Beyond Sodas

The consumption of sugar and its adverse health outcomes are seldom out of the news. It is known that over-consumption of sugar is associated with… Read More ›

Should We Tax Sugar — and If So, How?

In 2014, Berkeley voted to pass “Measure D,” also known as a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) tax (or more commonly as a soda tax), becoming the… Read More ›

Lessons from Berkeley’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Election and Tax

It used to be common knowledge that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down – but times change. Once lyricised as an accessory… Read More ›

Should We Tax Legal (but Harmful) Pleasures?

For a long time, a major concern of the public health lobby’s proposed sugar-sweetened beverage tax has been that it would unfairly punish disadvantaged groups.… Read More ›

A Sugar Tax Will Benefit Our Most Disadvantaged Groups

In a recent paper from the Grattan Institute, A sugary drinks tax: Recovering the community costs of obesity, Report No. 2016-15, Stephen Duckett and Hal… Read More ›

Grattan Institute’s Case for Sugar Tax Is Not Proven

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