Major soft drinks brands duck sugar levy extension in compromise deal

Lifestyle Express Vitesse

Under the compromise proposals, plans to toughen the threshold of the tax to include drinks with more than 4g of sugar per 100ml have been amended to 4.5g

Hundreds of soft drinks products, including many household names, will escape the government’s extension of the sugar tax, after ministers bowed to pressure from the drinks industry to water down its proposals.

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