Soft drink consumption has been hypothesized as one of the major factors in the growing rates of obesity in the US. Nearly two-thirds of all states currently tax soft drinks using excise taxes, sales taxes, or special exemptions to food exemptions from sales taxes to reduce consumption of this product, raise revenue, and improve public health. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of changes in...

OBJECTIVE To assess critically the scope for public health nutrition taxation within the framework of the global tax reform agenda. DESIGN Review of the tax policy literature for global policy priorities relevant to public health nutrition taxation; critical analysis of proposals for public health nutrition taxation judged against the global agenda for tax reform. SETTING The global tax ref...

This review summarizes current understanding of economic factors during the obesity epidemic and dispels some widely held, but incorrect, beliefs. Rising obesity rates coincided with increases in leisure time (rather than increased work hours), increased fruit and vegetable availability (rather than a decline in healthier foods), and increased exercise uptake. As a share of disposable income, A...

In the past year Denmark has introduced a “fat tax,” Hungary a “junk food tax,” and France a tax on sweetened drinks. 2 Peru has announced plans to tax junk food, and other countries, notably Ireland, are also considering such taxes. Last year’s UN high level summit on non-communicable disease recognised a role for food taxes, and the UK prime minster, David Cameron has said the UK should consi...

There has been significant growth in political, public, media, and academic interest in taxes and subsidies to encourage healthy food consumption over the past 3 years. The present systematic review, including an assessment of study quality, was conducted on new evidence published between January 2009 and March 2012 for the effect of food taxes and subsidies on consumption. Forty-three reports ...

Amelia Vader amelia.vader@ gmail.com Evans School of Public Affairs MPA 2013 AbstrAct Introduction Rising obesity rates and lower state and local revenues have resulted in more state governments adopting taxes on soda over the last ten years. The intended effects of soda taxes are to reduce the amount of soda purchased and consumed. This research uses data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Survei...

Citation: Devisch I. Food taxes: how likely are likely effects? International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2013; 1: 241. *Corresponding author: Ignaas Devisch; Email: [email protected] I want to thank Block and Willett (1) for their comments on my paper (2). Their remarks are substantial, thoughtful and they help us to discuss more profoundly one example of a food tax, the tax ...