Excise Dept defining threshold for sweetness tax
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THE EXCISE DEPARTMENT is rushing to finalise the sweetness threshold before raising the excise tax on high-sugar beverages, while insisting that the tax increase will not hurt businesses.
Somchai Poolsavasdi, director-general of the department, said Tuesday that it was going ahead with a feasibility study on collecting taxes on high-sugar beverages and would try to avoid any impact on the operators.
The department is searching for information on the impacts from sugar consumption on human health, and how a limit would affect industries.
