date:Aug 07, 2014
A new report by the European Commission has found that taxes on high-sugar, high-salt or fatty products may lead consumers to switch to cheaper products, and therefore have little effect in curbing the consumption of said products.
The report, Food Taxes and Their Impact on Competitiveness in the Agri-Food Sector, was commissioned by the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission to the ECSIP Consortium, led by Ecorys Netherlands.
It found that while such taxes