0000002816 00000 n 0000000016 00000 n Is the fat tax really effective? Tax evasion, often considered to be synonymous with tax fraud, is the act of misrepresenting or concealing the amount of taxable income on an annual tax return. Crucially, the question remains whether any changes in consumption of the taxed foods (or indeed an increase in government revenues raised through the tax) will translate into changes in health outcomes for the population. To date, very few reports have emerged on whether these taxes have brought about any changes in consumption. Tax revenue statistics - tables for Statistics Explained; Data sources. New research has found that fat taxes would increase the cost of living for UK families. The ‘law of demand’ in economics says that there is an inverse relationship between price and demand, and therefore that higher prices should lead to less consumption and lower prices to greater consumption. 0000009962 00000 n In 2009, per capita consumption of butter, margarine, fats and pork — the products hardest hit by the fat tax — was lower than in the early 1990s, by 67%, 48%, 20% and 44% respec‐ tively. Data are collected by Eurostat on the basis of the European system of national and regional accounts (ESA 2010) transmission programme: table 9, 'Detailed tax and social contributions receipts by type and receiving subsector'. Coming soon: the fat tax Why do increased income tax rates lower revenue? Furthermore, the cross-price effects will apply here too. We argue that without a proper appreciation of these potential impacts we cannot be sure what the effects of the taxes will be, and further that there is a possibility that they may be harmful to health. Recently, some European countries, including Spain, have considered introducing new taxes to reduce their budget deficits. %PDF-1.4 %���� In what follows we will neither argue for nor against such taxes but aim to emphasize that there is a general lack of appreciation of the varied impacts that may result from health-related food taxes. Supermarkets are also able to spread the higher cost of taxed food onto other foods or own-branded products that typically have higher profit margins. aAssuming that chicken is a substitute for beef (eaten instead). white meat such as chicken), but it may very well be unhealthier (e.g. Consumption of fatty foods have external costs on society. Although a flat tax seems fair from a percentage standpoint, as a 20% tax would be applied to all incomes, a greater share of a low-income household’s disposable income is affected. In October 2011, Denmark passed the world’s first fat tax – a tax on butter, milk, cheese, pizza, meat, oil and processed food that contained more than 2.3% saturated fat. n�3ܣ�k�Gݯz=��[=��=�B�0FX'�+������t���G�,�}���/���Hh8�m�W�2p[����AiA��N�#8$X�?�A�KHI�{!7�. how farmers, producers, processors and supermarkets will respond? Laura Cornelsen, Rosemary Green, Alan Dangour, Richard Smith, Why fat taxes won't make us thin, Journal of Public Health, Volume 37, Issue 1, March 2015, Pages 18–23, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdu032. 84 0 obj<>stream This does indeed apply to most products, including foods, but the responsiveness of the demand for foods to changes in prices is generally low (i.e. 0 Overall, there is a need for a much greater understanding of sensitivity to price changes across different segments of the population beyond obvious population characteristics.19 Who in a population actually responds to taxes by lowering their consumption of taxed products, and why? This is known as the income effect and it is more likely to affect lower income earners as they spend a relatively greater share of their incomes on food. The Danish government implemented this tax in an effort to reduce the population’s consumption of fatty foods, as Denmark’s overweight and obesity rates have steadily increased over the past decade. The fat tax did, however, raise more money than expected, but this only goes to show that it reduced the amount of high-calorie food sold by less than was anticipated. Consumers make numerous decisions about food consumption on a daily basis, and price is only one determinant among other environmental, social and cultural factors influencing diets.35 The fact that a ready-packed processed meal for a family appears a better choice than buying everything fresh and cooking from scratch is a driver behind consumption decisions that economics alone cannot explain. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. sweetened beverages, salted snacks) or a food constituent, most commonly sugar, saturated fat or salt. (2019, April 30). Among the set of measures, they have proposed a fat tax, which has the aims of not only increasing revenues, but also reducing junk food consumption, and thereby obesity rates and the concomitant health costs. This article is more than 8 years old. (I’ve been informed that it’s not a law to get measured once a year – please scroll this forum to learn more – below is the original article). A flat tax (short for flat-rate tax) is a tax with a single rate on the taxable amount, after accounting for any deductions or exemptions from the tax base. The Danish fat tax was unusual in … 0000009864 00000 n jX�o;�4D�8O�fw�M'{O�&f $*���=.5��t��Oq�&j�B���&�,M��*��U��]�\��Vb/I��sB��_ΰ$E!'���. Cutting benefits for obese people and alcoholics could help them get treatment - but taxing fatty foods would be regressive and illiberal For example, heavy consumers of sugar-sweetened beverages have been found to be less responsive to price increases compared with light or moderate consumers.18 This means that a tax on such beverages may have a relatively bigger impact on those who were not really the problem in the first place. When the price of a particular food (e.g. 0000010081 00000 n A tax of at least 20 percent placed on sugar-sweetened drinks could drop obesity rates by 3.5 percent and prevent 2,700 heart-related deaths each year, according to the study. A fat tax could help to subsidize the price of healthier foods. Herb-drug interactions between androgenic Chinese herbal medicines and androgen receptor antagonist on tumor growth: Studies on two xenograft prostate cancer animal models. [Sponsorship by the food and beverage industries in Brazilian professional soccer: an obstacle to the promotion of healthy eating]. Governments are, quite rightly, desperately seeking effective policy tools to turn the tide before it becomes a tsunami.1–3 The list of policy options follows the well-worn staples of public health: front of pack labels to improve consumer information on foods, restricting marketing of unhealthy foods, promoting healthy foods and the selection of healthy diets, and subsidizing healthy foods and activities. Also, due to multiple testing needs, traditional cut-off points for determining the statistical significance needs careful consideration. Is any of the material inaccurate? For example, a recent US-based study examining the effect of substitution within 25 food groups from high-fat to low-fat and high-sugar to low-sugar products in the context of a tax on fats or added sugars23 found that if substitution is not considered, a tax on fats is more efficient than a tax on added sugars but if substitution is considered the opposite holds—a reversal in the primary finding. In addition to strategic pricing, food processers are likely to apply reformulation strategies that may change the quality (and possibly healthiness) of processed foods by using alternative, cheaper inputs or ingredients. Some of the most well-known ‘health-related food taxes’ have been introduced in Europe. xref Obesity is estimated to cost the UK economy around £6.6–7.4 billion a year. 0000010434 00000 n Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. More joined-up policy-making is essential. 0000006162 00000 n Unfortunately so far, at a population level, these policies have not been effective at scale: overweight and obesity rates and as well as nutrition-related chronic disease rates continue to increase in countries irrespective of income level. Is a fat tax the only way to combat our growing epidemic of obesity? In the United States, 1 out of 3 citizens has a BMI over 30. Depending on the other foods that consumers may now buy more of, the intended impact of subsidies could again be reinforced or undermined. All authors declare no support from any organization for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 3 years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. Body mass index ... affordable and easily accessible to everyone, particularly to the poorest individuals. a recent modelling of a proposed 10% tax on sugar-sweetened tax in Ireland).26. 81 26 Such taxes are currently already in place in countries in Europe (e.g. Studies that address cross-price effects explicitly are emerging but these generally focus on either a narrow range of substitutes or on a very broad food group such as low-fat- versus high-fat content products, rather than across the whole diet.22–25, Although cross-price effects tend to be small, they can be really important. Own- and cross-price effects following a change in the price of beef. 0000010851 00000 n Formal evaluations of these policies are needed to establish whether the impacts of these taxes are sustained in the medium- to long term. So, what else can we do to increase the healthiness of food choices? ��w�G� xR^���[�oƜch�g�`>b���$���*~� �:����E���b��~���,m,�-��ݖ,�Y��¬�*�6X�[ݱF�=�3�뭷Y��~dó ���t���i�z�f�6�~`{�v���.�Ng����#{�}�}��������j������c1X6���fm���;'_9 �r�:�8�q�:��˜�O:ϸ8������u��Jq���nv=���M����m����R 4 � For example, In the Danish case, the tax may have increased levels of cross-border purchasing of products high in saturated fat.12,13. 0000005119 00000 n Data on 192 countries suggest that between 2005 and 2010 the average prevalence of overweight [body mass index (BMI) >25 kg/m 2] increased from 45 to 48% and the prevalence of obesity (BMI >30 kg/m 2) rose from 15 to 17%. We are not suggesting that health-related food and beverage taxes do not have a place in the list of possible policy options. Also, consumers may still continue buying the now higher priced food but reduce the quantity of other foods they consume to continue to afford it, including healthy foods. In November 2013, Mexico became the first country in Latin America to approve an excise tax on high-calorie packaged foods including potato chips, peanut butter and sweetened breakfast cereals and an increase in the tax on soft drinks. Let's hear it for a fat tax Pros and cons of a fat tax Does a McDonald's binge prove fast food is unreasonably dangerous? In the USA several states have applied small taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages. The tax was not abolished because the food industry suddenly became more powerful, but because ordinary Danes could see it failing before their very eyes. For example, reforms in the sugar policy in the European Union have lowered the price of sugar in the EU consistently since 200618 and a simulation study using French data showed that a 36% reduction in the price of sugar, associated with the EU sugar policy, would lead to an average decrease in the price of soft drinks by 3.4% (assuming the price decrease is fully transmitted to consumers).18 While the aim of the sugar policy is to make the agricultural sector more competitive, its consequence—to reduce the price of sugar for consumers—is contrary to recommendations of global nutrition and health policies. In Canada, sales tax applies to soft drinks, sweets and snack foods but other foods are free from sales tax. An aqueous extract of Prunella vulgaris L. inhibits the growth of papillary thyroid carcinoma by inducing autophagy in vivo and in vitro. In Mexico, the introduction of a tax on soft drinks reportedly led a major soft drink manufacturer to plan to reformulate its recipe to use cheaper high fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar.29 This reduces the price impact of the tax but makes the product potentially worse in terms of its health effect.30 However, reformulation can also be positive for health, for example, the replacement of sugar with natural sweeteners resulting in soft drinks with 30% lower sugar content.31 Thus, taxes may have both positive and negative health effects through reformulation strategies, but of concern is that these effects are very difficult to predict in advance. USE OF OFF-LABEL MEDICATIONS IN A NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT. �ꇆ��n���Q�t�}MA�0�al������S�x ��k�&�^���>�0|>_�'��,�G! The effect of rising food prices on food consumption: systematic review with meta-regression, Socioeconomic differences in purchases of more vs. less healthy foods and beverages: analysis of over 25,000 British households in 2010, Does the EU sugar policy reform increase added sugar consumption? EUROPE: ‘Fat Tax’ May Hurt Poor. 2y�.-;!���K�Z� ���^�i�"L��0���-�� @8(��r�;q��7�L��y��&�Q��q�4�j���|�9�� In formulating policy relating to making us thin, price needs to be seen as a contributing, but limited and blunt instrument; one that can complement other forms of intervention to change our relationship with food, environmental stimuli and health but not one that can achieve it alone. <<50642a68175163418bbafd6f72e3ed23>]>> x�b```b``>��������π �,l@̱ I�!����WA���c;[�Z� �tg89̷�Xɳ��|Ƃr������..�P]mQ�eb�ǣr��J�͎m�[��z���M��2[�~�VzL*�tFf���k��3�8�+[g�"�4��c�3�@&��50[00�603�EU�X�f dC��" �LIZ@Z���"J�L�[+09>m�`�? Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report: APA. "F$H:R��!z��F�Qd?r9�\A&�G���rQ��h������E��]�a�4z�Bg�����E#H �*B=��0H�I��p�p�0MxJ$�D1��D, V���ĭ����KĻ�Y�dE�"E��I2���E�B�G��t�4MzN�����r!YK� ���?%_&�#���(��0J:EAi��Q�(�()ӔWT6U@���P+���!�~��m���D�e�Դ�!��h�Ӧh/��']B/����ҏӿ�?a0n�hF!��X���8����܌k�c&5S�����6�l��Ia�2c�K�M�A�!�E�#��ƒ�d�V��(�k��e���l ����}�}�C�q�9 If the price of one food drops due to subsidies (e.g. So what exactly is this fat tax everyone is talking about from Japan? In this new study, The Proof of the Pudding: Denmark’s fat tax fiasco, Christopher … A review of the policy found that 40% of … 0000001376 00000 n A Public Health Food Tax on packaged products with high sugar, saturated fat or salt levels was introduced in September 2011 in Hungary and a tax on saturated fats was introduced in October 2011 in Denmark. A study on the French soda tax found that while the tax was fully passed on to the price of sodas (no untaxed substitutes), the tax was not fully passed on to the price of flavoured water and fruit drinks (substitutes more widely available).28 Similarly, in Denmark, supermarkets did not fully pass on the tax to consumers on butter and oils, while discount stores fully transmitted the tax for blended spreads and oils.8 Interestingly, the discount stores also used the tax to increase their margins on butter and margarine, possibly because of the higher demand for these products from this type of store. However, as a result of the methodological complexity involved in considering the whole demand system in simulation or modelling exercises and the heavy data demands, policy options are all too often being considered without full consideration of substitution effects (e.g. 2011 also saw a re-introduction of a tax on sweets (including soft drinks and ice cream) in Finland and at the beginning of 2012, France introduced a tax on drinks with added sugar or sweetener. Zoppi, Lois. Similarly, in the USA, various states have sales taxes on soft. A newspaper report from Finland describes the first year of the tax on sweets as a success that raised more revenue than expected while the consumption of sweets dropped.6 Based on this first-year success the Finnish government was reported to be considering widening legislation to create a ‘sugar tax’ to cover a wider range of products with added sugar.7 Similarly, preliminary figures from Denmark, Hungary and France reported a reduction in the consumption of foods and constituent ingredients targeted by these taxes.8–10 However, the most recent figures reported in the Finnish media indicate that the initial drop in the consumption of sweets did not persist and, according to retailers, sweet sales returned to previous levels11 suggesting that the tax only had a short-term impact on demand. The funding body had no role in the writing process or the decision to submit this work for publication. This classifies them as “obese.” By implementing a fat tax on the items which contribute to higher calorie consumption, it is believed that there could be nearly 3,000 negative cardiac events prevented every year. Usually, the subject of such a tax is a specific food or drink (e.g. A June 2007 study suggests that a "fat tax"-- placing a tax on fatty or unhealthy foods -- might save thousands of lives and reduce health care costs. 0000001218 00000 n Hungary, France and Finland) and in various states in the USA. Yet, three recent large systematic reviews point out that most individual studies on the effectiveness of food and beverage taxes generally do not consider these effects5,20,21 which means that a lot of the current evidence base should be interpreted with this caveat in mind. Without a proper appreciation of the potential indirect impacts we do not know the overall impact of taxes foods on unhealthy foods and beverages and further that there is a very real possibility that they may not be beneficial for health after all. A��Q9DM>ZP���r�l�͗� �e��l��"���! After all, we have increased the price of tobacco products for years, and fewer smokers remain willing to pay a high price to consume a deadly product. 0000010674 00000 n We have simulated the impacts of a fiscal policy in which saturated fat is taxed by increasing the price of a good by 1 percentage point for every percentage point of saturated fat that the good contains; for instance, milk which contains 1.72 per cent of saturated fats will see its price increasing by 1.72 per cent. Opinion polls showed that 80 per cent of Danes did not change their shopping habits at all as a result of the tax. This Briefing Note looks at the potential for the introduction of a 'fat tax' into the UK in an effort to reduce the growing prevalence of obesity in Britain. 0000015205 00000 n A tax of 16 crowns (€2.14) per kilo was applied to meat, dairy products and cooking oil which consist of more than 2.3% saturated fat to combat unhealthy lifestyles. Studies that look at the effectiveness of subsidies generally assume that people's reaction to falling prices is symmetrical to their reaction to increasing prices (i.e. More complexity, however, comes when we look beyond this direct effect of price on consumption. red meat such as beef) increases then people will probably consume less of it (the own-price effect), but in doing so they are left with a decision about what to consume instead (the cross-price effect) (see Table 1). 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Hungary’s tax, which also applies to salt and fat, varies according to the amount of offending ingredient used. But we need to be careful here as well. A relatively recent policy option is a tax on unhealthy or high-energy content foods or beverages or on their constituent ingredients—the so-called ‘health-related food tax’.5 The logic is compelling—make these unhealthy foods more expensive and demand for them will fall. }#{~��o��&����������w���"5tlf��'q���ŗ)�s�t� L#��|���~��H��^(����,i����Ka1KC1�'y�^6�C+½wKfՂ�Yi�Z)YW�e7���@�8e�u{�T�\ ������ؾtЪםm��o�乐go:l�������:WZ�$��һI�i��!jt��;��ޥ�i���&�GD��po�)���9�˂r�7���(����w6l=F.�NRd�����,��Ͻ�i_�xd��]����nջ��N��y�=�>��H��)���DZ�G�f>�����-͒���0� �f��j��U��9�f݅�γI��N�}����[u[^M˻I_��u �/㛺3�싑yQL��а potato chips covered in salt) or just cheaper (e.g. fruits) then consumers' disposable income increases and they could buy something else instead (e.g. In smoking’s case, the current average tax on a pack of cigarettes is approximately $2.46, $1.01 of which is Federal tax). But unfortunately, this is not the full story. 100 taxes you pay WHO wants a fat tax? In the year before the flat tax, Russians in the two higher tax brackets reported only 52% of their income to the taxman. _��-�_T�N�����P.O�]졽^?���\eG���˷��hey{�0 #.�� There are different forms such a tax could take. Is Being Fat in Japan Really Illegal? An example of such a policy is a tax … Subsidising healthy foods has often been suggested alongside higher taxes for unhealthy foods. It is simply wrong to assume that the fat tax was introduced for financial reasons. 0000013351 00000 n Or watch it … Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health. 4 'Fat tax' on unhealthy food must raise prices by 20% to have effect, says study. At the same time there is a risk of bias when using the cross-price elasticities. �\�(X�-+O�B��y$y h���������1ҠL��^mb�Z��0Bu;�: �8B��3���hABUCY��U�oMp��>6�O{��O3�ķX���!�� �}� Thus in France, sweets, chocolates, margarine and vegetable fat attract VAT of 20.6% whilst other foods attract VAT of only 5.5%. lower quality beef). 81 0 obj<> endobj But some doctors have warned that such taxes will not only be ineffective in reducing obesity and promoting healthy eating but … One possibility is to tax the nutrient contents of foods such that those containing more fat or salt, for example, are taxed more heavily. Because substitution patterns are a priori unknown, the bias becomes very difficult to detect. Nearly 34 percent of Americans are obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 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Although these taxes are possibly efficient in reducing by a small amount the consumption of targeted products if the tax is fully transmitted to the consumer, there is too little available evidence on what will be consumed instead and whether these food substitutions undermine the hoped-for health benefits of the tax. 0000002850 00000 n Also, if the tax is accompanied by a strong public health message that is accepted by consumers, the benefits may multiply naturally. Part of the consumption is likely to be substituted with an alternative which ideally is healthier (e.g. For example, eating unhealthy foods contributes to the problem of obesity. A tax in the order of at least 20% of the price of a food product is far from being a simple or predictable fix, albeit being one of the few upstream policy options that is straightforward to implement and send a clear health message. We also know very little on how the food supply side will respond and what overall impact this will have. The initial forecast was that the tax would bring in £520 million in its first year of operation, but this was revised down to £275 million as a result of company efforts to remove sugar from their products. Please let me know. 0000011073 00000 n However, within countries, low-income populations are more sensitive to price changes because they spend relatively more on foods compared with their wealthier counterparts.14 Lower socio-economic groups also purchase a greater proportion of energy from less healthy foods and beverages in comparison with those in higher socio-economic groups, and we may therefore expect their consumption of these unhealthy foods to be reduced more by a tax.16 Disregarding the income inequality issue, this is potentially good news for health because lower income earners have a higher burden of risk factors for nutrition-related chronic disease17 and food taxes therefore have the potential to reduce health inequalities. 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