- 5 years of the UK's Soft Drinks Industry Levy🔍
- UK sugar tax explained🔍
- Sugary drinks tax may have prevented over 5000 cases of obesity🔍
- Britain's “sugar tax” tackles obesity🔍
- Expert Comment – 'Sugar tax' on soft drinks shown to reduce sugar ...🔍
- Soft Drinks Industry Levy comes into effect🔍
- The UK has introduced a sugar tax🔍
- How do we know the UK's sugar tax is working?🔍
The UK has introduced a sugar tax
5 years of the UK's Soft Drinks Industry Levy | WCRF International
It's 5 years since the UK started taxing soft drinks containing sugar – known as the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL). The aim is to encourage ...
UK sugar tax explained: what is it and has it worked? - The Guardian
The tax was targeted at drinks manufacturers in order to incentivise them to reduce the sugar content of their products. According to the levy, ...
Sugar tax | Institute for Government
The soft drinks industry levy (SDIL), or 'sugar tax', is a levy applied to UK-produced or imported soft drinks containing added sugar.
Sugary drinks tax may have prevented over 5000 cases of obesity
In April 2018, to protect children from excessive sugar consumption and tackle childhood obesity, the UK governments introduced a 2-tier sugar ...
Britain's “sugar tax” tackles obesity - PMC
Britain's new tax of about 34 cents per 100 millilitres of pop will come into effect in 2018. Image courtesy of Savany/iStock. Some groups are now lobbying for ...
Expert Comment – 'Sugar tax' on soft drinks shown to reduce sugar ...
The UK government introduced it in April 2018 as part of its strategy to tackle childhood obesity. A quarter of adults in England are currently ...
Soft Drinks Industry Levy comes into effect - GOV.UK
The tax on soft drinks, commonly referred to as the 'Sugar Tax', has already resulted in over 50% of manufacturers reducing the sugar ...
The UK has introduced a sugar tax, but will it work? | LSHTM
The tax puts a charge of 24p on drinks containing 8g of sugar per 100ml and 18p a litre on those with 5-8g of sugar per 100ml, directly payable by ...
How do we know the UK's sugar tax is working? - The Conversation
A year after the sugar tax was introduced, adults in the UK cut their sugar intake by two and a half teaspoons, on average.
UK looks to expand sugar tax - Beverage Daily
Latest figures show the soft drinks industry levy has raised £1.9 billion since it was introduced in 2018, yet the LGA says it is 'increasingly ...
UK sugar tax slashed children's added sugar intake by half - Euronews
Compared with a scenario where the tax had not been introduced, and taking the existing decline in sugar consumption into account, the study ...
Sugary drinks tax may have prevented over 5,000 cases of obesity a ...
The introduction of the soft drinks industry levy – the 'sugary drinks tax' – in England was followed by a drop in the number of cases of ...
Fall in daily sugar intake following introduction of UK sugar tax
The UK government introduced a two-tier sugar tax on soft drinks in April 2018. It added 24p per litre to drinks with the highest sugar content ...
Countries that have taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs)
An SSB tax, called the Soft Drinks Industry Levy, was introduced in the United Kingdom in April 2018. The UK tax is a two-tiered levy that taxes ...
An exploration of the portrayal of the UK soft drinks industry levy in ...
A related argument against sugar taxes was the unfair dual impact of the new sugar tax and the uncertain nature of Brexit – an argument which first appeared in ...
The sugar tax and soft drinks in the United Kingdom (UK) - Statista
In the United Kingdom, the sugar tax is expected to be implemented by April 2018 and with 69 percent of the public supporting its introduction, ...
UK sugar tax led to fall in consumption in children and adults
After the sugar tax was introduced free sugar consumption in the UK fell by 10% in children and 20% in adults, but free sugar intake in the UK ...
Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate ...
The sugar tax has helped to reduce obesity in teenage girls and bring about a fall in the number of children admitted to hospital for tooth ...
A discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage of the ...
On 6th April 2018, the United Kingdom (UK) Government introduced a Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) commonly referred to as the “sugar tax”. The ...
Making the case for sugar taxes: UK, Ireland and Mexico
Researchers at the University of Oxford have made the case for sugar taxes ... The introduction of the tax in Mexico in turn influenced policy thinking in the UK ...