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Fat tax: FSSAI recommends sin tax on junk food, but this is likely to be taken with a pinch of salt
May 12, 2017
- The food regulator, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), has recommended a sin tax on junk food and severe curbs on their advertising—to lay the way to an eventual ban on them.
- Increasing obesity in populations, especially childhood obesity, is weighing heavy on the minds of policy-makers worldwide, and to that extent, FSSAI’s fat tax—actually, fat, salt and sugar (FSS) tax—may sound like a healthy proposition. The problem is that the FSSAI wants almost everything off your plate.
- With a fat tax, the government might end up eating dust if people simply put more money into what their mouths like.
