SA sugar tax: You’ll pay 20% more to cut out half a teaspoon of sugar

[BusinessTech]

SA sugar tax: You’ll pay 20% more to cut out half a teaspoon of sugar

The Beverage Association of South Africa says that a soft drink tax will make South Africans poorer, not thinner.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

another tax, as if etolls were not enough.

 

[Pilgrim]

How about reducing the sugar in your drinks so that you don't have to pass the tax on to your customers?

 

[Gaz{M}]

I will pay zero more because I buy sugar free softdrinks already.

 

[backstreetboy]

I will pay zero more because I buy sugar free softdrinks already.

They'll prolly tax that as well.

 

[chromedome]

" sugar tax will be levied with effect from 1 April 2017 " bit early..

 

[cerebus]

The Beverage Association of South Africa

nice unbiased source there mybb

 

[R13...]

They'll prolly tax that as well.

More like the manufacturers will apply price parity across their products. They're sweetened after all and those sweetners cost much more than sugar.

 

[Pilgrim]

I will pay zero more because I buy sugar free softdrinks already.

“Because it is an excise duty and not a sales tax, soft drink manufacturers may also have to increase the price of other drinks too – including healthier options such as bottled water and fruit juice to cross-subsidise losses or, in the case of smaller soft drink manufacturers to merely stay in business.”

So a few drinks become more expensive, time to increase the price of all drinks... nice

 

[krycor]

BEVSA said that many of those jobs on the line are amongst small spaza owners and vendors in the informal sector.

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“The regressive nature of this tax is that the poor simply pay more,” said BEVSA executive director, Mapule Ncanywa.

Seems to me they saying they will not decrease sugar levels and rather get tax from vendor % margin squeeze and cost-subsidising..

Last i checked, rich or poor, pay the same for their beverages.. if you want to retain sugar levels and pass the cost down to consumers of non-sugary drinks then you simply killing yourself as others who do not do this will have increased sales.