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26 paź 2016 · To assess the effects of taxation of fat content in food on consumption of total fat and saturated fat, energy intake, overweight, obesity, and other adverse health outcomes in the general population.
11 wrz 2020 · Does a tax on the fat content of foods reduce obesity and help people to eat less fat and less saturated fat? What is obesity? Body mass index (BMI) is usually a useful measure to show whether people are a healthy weight for their height.
22 maj 2014 · A relatively recent policy option is a tax on unhealthy or high-energy content foods or beverages or on their constituent ingredients—the so-called ‘health-related food tax’. 5 The logic is compelling—make these unhealthy foods more expensive and demand for them will fall.
1 lut 2024 · Ad-quantum excise taxes are the most common health taxes applied to food and non-alcoholic beverages (WHO, 2019), but differentiation of Value Added Tax (VAT) rates on foods and beverages is increasingly being considered an option for incentivising healthy diets.
10 mar 2019 · A ‘fat tax’ is a specific tax placed on foods which are considered to be unhealthy and contribute towards obesity. The tax could be placed on foods high in sugar/fat, such as crisps, chocolate and deep fried takeaways. The argument is that a fat tax would encourage healthier eating and raise revenue to be spent on public health care.
3 sie 2016 · The latest finding, showing a small reduction, is comparable with findings from a study using national retail outlet data on the sale of twelve foodstuff categories targeted by the fat tax...
1 paź 2023 · This study aims to estimate the impact of excise taxes on foods high in fats, sugar and salt (HFSS) on CO 2-equivalent emissions and consumer welfare in Scotland. The paper applied the Exact Affine Stone Index Implicit Marshallian demand system to estimate the demand elasticities for seven HFSS food categories purchased in Scotland.
