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Barometer

Denmark tried Osborne’s sugar tax. Here’s what happened

Also in our Barometer column: ageing populations; stay-at-home towns; growing mountains

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

Bottling out

Does any country have experience of a sugary drinks tax?
— Denmark introduced a tax on sweetened soft drinks in the 1930s which by 2013 was being levied at a rate of €0.22 a litre and brought in €60m a year.
— However, the Danish government also estimated that it was losing €38.9m

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