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Millers to Congress: Keep BIR away from raw sugar

January 13, 2016 Mary Grace Padin (Business Mirror) | http://goo.gl/ZmggpP

Local millers are asking law-makers to make sure the definition of raw sugar and raw cane sugar in a new law they are crafting will not lead to “misinterpretation” by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), and trigger the imposition of competitiveness-eroding value-added tax (VAT) on these products…

Millers report drop in sugar output

January 12, 2016 Mary Grace Padin (Business Mirror)|http://goo.gl/PT3Xmz

The country’s sugar farmers and millers are now feeling the drop in their sugar production, as El Niño continues to linger in the Philippines, an industry group said on Tuesday.

Philippine Sugar Millers Association (PSMA) President Francisco D. Varua told the BusinessMirror that sugar farmers…

SOUTH AFRICA: DA opposes proposed 20% sugar tax

January 11, 2016 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/5TbLDu

While the Democratic Alliance welcomes the Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi's, plans to reduce obesity by 10% amongst South Africans as the right move to solving a major national problem it believes that increasing the tax on sugar-sweetened beverages by 20% will further increase food prices and hurt the poor who…

UK: Obesity experts say sugar tax should be 50%

January 11, 2016 Sugaronline|http://goo.gl/giYX7p

A sugar tax of 50% is needed to drastically change drinking and eating habits, obesity experts have said, according to the UK's Independent newspaper. 

Health professionals on the National Obesity Forum said the 20% rate recommended by Public Health England would be an "insufficient" deterrent for buying sugary…

MEXICO: 10% sugar tax leads to 12% cut in soda sales during its first year

January 8, 2016 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/Mes1vA

A 10% tax on sugar-sweetened drinks in Mexico has been associated with a 12% cut in sales just one year after its implementation, a study published in The BMJ shows, according to News Medical.

The sugar tax was also associated with a 4% increase in the purchase of untaxed beverages.

The authors of the paper…