Sugar-sweetened beverages: taxation evidence from seven European countries and recommendations for implementation in other EU regions

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.21101/cejph.a8210" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.21101/cejph.a8210</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21101/cejph.a8210" target="_blank" >10.21101/cejph.a8210</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sugar-sweetened beverages: taxation evidence from seven European countries and recommendations for implementation in other EU regions

Original language description

Objectives: Higher-than-recommended sugar consumption (<10% of total energy intake; WHO) leads to negative health impacts and the development of serious diseases. Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) proved to be among the leading sources of free sugar intake, as they contain large amounts of added sugar. Our article aims to propose tax measures that will help change consumer behaviour and reduce SSB consumption. Methods: For a comparison of the forms of taxation, the experience of seven countries (Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Catalonia - Spain and the UK) were analysed. The evolution of sugar consumption, consumption of sweetened drinks and obesity before and after the introduction and/or abolition of the sugar tax were reviewed. Results: States that implemented a tax on SSBs were able to reduce SSB consumption in the first year after the tax was introduced when states with a sugar-content-based tax have implemented it more effectively than states with a volume-based tax. Based on this finding, we propose basic design assumptions for the tax that can be used in European countries that have not yet introduced the tax. Progressive taxation divides beverages into 3 bands. The basic assumption is to encourage the desired consumer behaviour, i.e. consumption of SSBs with lower sugar content. The proposed tax design is applied to the conditions of the Czech Republic as a model case study. Conclusions: The results of our study suggest that SSB taxation could be an effective policy intervention to improve population health by reducing the health impacts of SSB among children and adolescents, although further studies are needed to prove the causality of the described associations

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30300 - Health sciences

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Central European Journal of Public Health

ISSN

1210-7778

e-ISSN

1803-1048

Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

279-287

UT code for WoS article

001427346500010

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85218071850