
A Legal and Practical Guide for Designing Sugary Drink Taxes
The guide begins by answering the question: Why enact a sugary drink tax? It then identifies best practices and potential pitfalls in designing and implementing sugary drink taxes, focusing on considerations that affect the scope and size of a proposed tax, as well as allocation of tax revenue. The guide briefly examines the process for passing and implementing a tax and ends with a discussion of the potential challenges that future tax efforts might face.
ChangeLab Solutions and Healthy Food America have collaborated on this guide, as an update of the 2016 Best Practices in Designing Local Taxes on Sugary Drinks, reflecting lessons learned from local sugary drink tax efforts over the past two years.
Resource Information
Date
January 1, 2018
Author
ChangeLab Solutions and Healthy Food America
Type
Guide
Setting
Cafeteria/Canteen, Community-at-large, Grocery/Retail, Long-term Care, Mobile Vending, Primary Care, Recreation Centre, Restaurant/Food Service Premise, School, Workplace
Age
Children (4-11), Youth (12-17), Adults (18-64)
Topic
Chronic Disease Prevention, Healthy Weight | Obesity, Nutrients, Sugar-Sweetened Beverages or Energy Drinks
Jurisdiction
Local/Municipal/Regional, Provincial, National
Tags
childhood obesity, chronic disease prevention, diets, energy drinks, food costs, nutrients, obesity, policy, sugar, sugar-sweetened beverages, tax