Osna.FMCarsten Linnemann, the CDU's general secretary, criticized the SPD's proposal to levy a health‑tax on rental and capital income, arguing that it would jeopardiz... https://news.osna.fm/?p=33530 | #news #capital #citing #criticizes #healthtax
Headlines AfricaAfrica: Sugary Drinks, Processed Foods, Alcohol and Tobacco Are Big Killers - Why the G20 Should Add Its Weight to Health Taxes: [The Conversation Africa] By 2030, non-communicable diseases will account for 75% of all deaths annually. Eight percent of these will be in the global south. Most of these diseases are what we call silent killers: type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, as… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TL1gPg #HealthTax #NonCommunicableDiseases #PublicHealth #G20 #SilentKillers
Tünde Nagy-Bántó🤯Look at the utterly cynical reply from the #FoodIndustry:
"Responding to Ipsos’s findings, the Food and Drink Federation, which represents most #FoodProducers, said companies should be allowed to develop healthier products – such as by removing salt, sugar and calories and adding fibre, fruit and vegetables – rather than face taxes."
Who does not allow corporations to develop healthier foods? To make them less sweet? To make them less salty? To use healthier ingredients?
🧵UK Survey (sample size 2136): 58% support taxing sugary and salty products, and 53% support taxing #UltraProcessedFood.
#HealthTax revenue should support low-income families' health with increased fruit and vegetable consumption.
“Taxing unhealthy products prompts many companies to reformulate them in order to avoid paying the tax and thus benefits #PublicHealth."
Obesity costs the UK £98bn a year.
#UPF #FoodIndustry #HealthyDiet #PublicPolicy #policy #diet #obesity
Alexander J. Stein#Taxes on unhealthy foods may reduce demand & increase government revenues for #investments back into public #health programs and policies to reduce #obesity & the incidence of non-communicable #diseases in India: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czad117 #India #healthtax #sugartax #elasticities
Janet 🍀"Colombia passes ambitious ‘junk food law’ to tackle #NCDs non-communicable diseases.
That makes 🇨🇴 one of the first countries in the world to introduce a #healthtax targeting ultra-processed foods."
En NL maar treuzelen over verlagen naar 0% btw op verse groente en fruit. Niks doen is niet altijd goedkoper.
#ToenameZorgkosten
#Preventie
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/10/colombia-junk-food-tax-improve-health-acc?s=09