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Lobby groups call on government to double sugar tax to fight ill-health

Lobby groups call on government to double sugar tax to fight ill-health

ABBEY MAKOE A group of prominent economic, medical and public health scholars made an impassioned plea to both the South African National Treasury and the SA Revenue Services (SARS), in a rare open letter published in the mainstream media, to double the “sugar tax”.  In the widely debated letter since then, the society’s brightest minds – evidently concerned about the impact and contribution of sugar particularly in beverages, made a case for the relevant authorities to double SA’s health promotion levy, commonly known as the “sugar tax”. The full-page advertisement has created a national dialogue over the effects of sugar…
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