The impacts on food purchases and tax revenues of a tax based on Chile's nutrient profiling model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In June 2016, Chile implemented the Law of Food Labelling and Advertising, which included a mandatory front-of-pack warning labels on food and beverages high in added sugar, saturated fat, sodium or energy density, restrictions on child-directed marketing and on the promotion and sales of these products in schools. The regulation does not include taxes although Chile had implemented a tiered tax on SSBs two years before this law was implemented. Therefore, the objective of the study was to simulate the impact of taxing food and beverages based on the cutoff's points for warning labels on purchases and revenues.

Methods

We derived price elasticities using the linear approximation of the almost ideal demand system for six groups of labeled food and beverages (with a

SUBMITTER: Colchero MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8638973 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature