Fat Tax

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  5 Ways Junk Food is Harming Your Body Without You Knowing It

  With the number of obesity cases shockingly on the rise across the country, state governments are starting to take effective measures to stop the main culprit - junk food. While there have been cases of banning sale of junk food in school canteens and talks of fat tax, now FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) has also recommended an...

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  Ban Fast Food Advertisements and Hike Taxes on Them: FSSAI

  FSSAI has recommended additional tax on processed food and sugar-sweetened beverages, and also called for a blanket ban on advertising of junk foods

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  50,000 Guests At Big Fat Reddy Wedding In Bengaluru. And A Few Taxmen

  50,000 people attended a wedding in Bengaluru hosted by politician and mining tycoon G Janardhana Reddy. Not invited, but present nevertheless, were some tax officers who, according to sources, were discreetly appraising the lavish arrangements.

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  Britain Seeks To Fight The Fat With Soft Drinks Sugar Levy

  Britain on Thursday launched a strategy aimed at curbing childhood obesity by taxing companies which sell sugar-laced soft drinks and investing that money in programmes to encourage physical activity and balanced diets for school children.

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  According to Cardiologists Fat Tax May Help to Combat Obesity

  A fat tax on high-calorie foods to encourage healthier lifestyle choices needs to be enforced universally on all foods containing trans fats rather than partially on fast foods, a leading cardiologist has suggested.

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  Kerala Fat Tax: Could Making Junk Food Expensive Curb Obesity?

  The fat tax debate continues. Are pizzas and burgers only to blame or do we have other sinful treats to worry about?

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  Foreign Media On Kerala's 'Fat Tax' And The Global Experience

  The opening salvos of the fight against fat have been fired in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

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  Kerala to Introduce 'Fat Tax': 14.5% to be Levied on Fast Food Chains like McDonald's

  The Kerala government plans to impose additional tax on ready-to-eat chapatis by introducing 5% tax on packaged wheat products

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  After Bihar's Tax On Samosas, Kerala's 'Fat Tax' On Burgers, Pizzas

  The Left government headed by Pinarayi Vijayan has introduced a "fat tax" of 14.5 per cent on restaurants that sell junk food like burgers, pizzas and doughnuts.

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  South Africans Sweet on Sugary Drinks Despite Fat Tax

  Manufacturers of sugar-sweetened drinks in South Africa believe the tax could lead to job losses.

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  'Fat Tax' May Boost Healthy Food Choices: Study

  At some stores, prices are equal across all fat content; at others, prices decrease with fat content.

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  'Fat Tax' Can Boost Healthy Foods' Demand: Study

  Small price differences in food products, which mimic a "fat tax", can be highly effective in shifting consumer demand from high calorie to healthier low calorie alternatives, say authors of a study that included Indians.

• Lavish Wedding Alert in Karnataka. Luxury Tax Could Apply

  Big fat weddings across Karnataka could soon be crashed by a new luxury tax the government wants to impose.

• Denmark levies world's first 'fat tax'

  Denmark on Saturday became the first country in the world to impose a fat tax after a week in which consumers hoarded butter, pizza, meat and milk to avoid the immediate effects.

• Obese people in Germany may face 'fat tax'

  Overweight people who pursue unhealthy lifestyles should pay higher taxes in order to cover the extra costs they create for Germany's healthcare system, a conservative lawmaker has said. "The question must be admitted whether the immense costs that, for example, arise from excessive consumption of food, can be permanently paid out of the consolidat...