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Sugar tax in next month's Budget

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    #2
    Korvanica
    Registered Users Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭Korvanica


    Lol, this year it'll be queues of people in tesco buying coke instead of queues of people buying petrol...


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    #3
    R0ot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭R0ot


    They don't tax things exclusively unless they make money from it.


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    #4
    bizmark
    Registered Users Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    For the children no doubt


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    #5
    StudentDad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,457 ✭✭✭StudentDad


    Sugar tax? Bloody fantastic - not! It's hard enough to find drinks without plastic additives in place of sugar as it is.

    SD


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    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    What about diet and zero drinks?


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    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    MagicSean wrote: »
    What about diet and zero drinks?

    now its a fizzy tax thanks to you! :P


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    #8
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Nanny state strikes again.

    ****ing joke country


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    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Heard it on the radio this morning, obesity in children n'all that... So the bright minds in office decide making it more expensive is the solution, like how they tackle most problems. To me it sounds beyond desperate from those fools and really theirs many more ways to try and counter act obesity in kids, but guess what? They wouldn't make any money so they couldn't really give a ****. Cowards. Atleast come out and say you want to bring in more money to pay the rich like you are trying to do.


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    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users Posts: 14,329 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Thankfully there's no sugar in beer.


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    #11
    bizmark
    Registered Users Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    Only way this is to fight obesity in children or adults is if every cent is invested in the likes of school sports programs and walking/cycleing paths .....Guess what you can be sure wont be happening with the money


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    Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,153 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    "First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women"

    Typical Irish politicians doing it arseways

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e_QRSvPmeZA/TOTd6bhHy8I/AAAAAAAAAXE/V6l3PMlT22M/s1600/sugar+pile.jpg


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    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,259 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    MagicSean wrote: »
    What about diet and zero drinks?
    There just as bad, your body treats The sugar replacmwnts as if they were sugar.


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    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Willy Wonka won't like this


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    #15
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    I predicted this :P


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    #16
    Zamboni
    Registered Users Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    I'll take a sugar tax over a fat tax any day.


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    #17
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    fcuk sake, whats next, chip tax? pizza tax? to help curve obesity my arse.


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    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    ted1 wrote: »
    There just as bad, your body treats The sugar replacmwnts as if they were sugar.

    In what way exactly?


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    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,259 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Stores them as fat


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    #20
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,920 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Didn't Denmark just revoke their fat tax and cancelled plans for sugar tax?


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    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    If I put sugar in my tea do I have to pay tax?


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    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Interesting that they're getting concerned about our well-being all of a sudden.

    Call it what is it is, a bailout tax.


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    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Didn't Denmark just revoke their fat tax and cancelled plans for sugar tax?

    they sure did...
    But Denmark is to scrap the fat tax it introduced a little over a year ago – a world first.

    The Danish government said it was costly and failed to change people's eating habits.

    The Danish Tax Ministry said in a statement: "The fat tax and the extension of the chocolate tax – the so-called sugar tax – has been criticised for increasing prices for the public, increasing companies' administrative costs and putting Danish jobs at risk.

    "At the same time it is believed that the fat tax has, to a lesser extent, contributed to Danes travelling across the border to make purchases.

    "Against this background, the government and the (far-left) Red Green Party have agreed to abolish the fat tax and cancel the planned sugar tax."


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    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Didn't Denmark just revoke their fat tax and cancelled plans for sugar tax?

    Yes because the locals were going to Germany to buy their junk


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    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Mmmmmmmmmmmm.....Danish......


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    #26
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I'm glad to see a sugar tax, and so is my tooth.


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    #27
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Yes, instead of raising awareness and mentality towards our diet let's just tax everything.

    Marvellous, stupendous, inspirational idea.

    It's as much about the kids as Jimmy Saville's goodwill was.


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    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,920 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

    Yes because the locals were going to Germany to buy their junk

    TO NORTHERN IRELAND!


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    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler




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    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    This is an anti-"designated driver" tax.


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    5dolla12
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭5dolla12


    Dont really see the issue with this tax. Govt needs to raise revenue somehow. At least by putting it on something like fizzy drinks it allows people the option of avoiding the tax by simply not buying fizzy drinks. I would only have a coke or something every now and again, and while it will be a bt annoying to see the price increase, i'd rather have the choice of avoiding it than see this passed on through some new compulsory tax.

    Obviously the budget will probably see some increases in compulsory taxes anyway, but at least this will be a very small portion that wont be passed on compulsorily and I can choose to avoid.


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