Decomposing consumer and producer effects on sugar from beverage purchases after a sugar-based tax on beverages in South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Growing global concern about obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases has raised interest in fiscal policy as a tool to reduce this disease burden and its social costs, especially excise taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Of particular interest have been nutrient-based taxes to improve diet quality. These can incentivize producers to reformulate existing products and introduce healthier alternatives into their ranges. In 2018, South Africa adopted a sugar-based tax on SSBs, the Health Promotion Levy (HPL). Early findings suggest that purchases of higher-sugar taxable beverages fell and purchases of no- and lower-sugar beverages increased, alongside significant reductions in the sugar content of overall beverage purchases. However, underlying these changes are consumption

SUBMITTER: Bercholz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9288974 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature