A French in three (24.6 million in 2012) is struck from obesity or overweight. And unfortunately, this figure is not about to fall, the increase of obese people is on average 4% per year.
The real public health issue amounted to 20 billion euros per year has challenged the Treasury Department, which has just published a study on the subject.
the risk of diabetes, hypertension, depression or joints, but also cancers of the stomach or device digestive are indeed higher in people affected overweight.
If there is already since 2012 a tax on sugary and sweetened beverages that relate € 400 million and a “Redbull tax” for € 3 million the Treasury proposes to no longer target a single food but to target caloric value of foods, what Mexico since 2014. Either a global tax on “junk food”. Another suggestion would be to increase VAT on products’ deemed harmful to health “.
In France, only alcohol, caviar, confectionery and vegetable fats do not benefit from the reduced rate .
Believing that far too complex tax, the Secretary of State for Budget, Christian Eckert rejected this idea since the publication of the study. “I’m not too keen” to retain these proposals, also said the Minister of Economy and Finance, Michel Sapin. While the government tries “to cut taxes, eliminate taxes”, he does not want “to see otherwise create.” “The leadership of the treasure is there to make proposals, food for thought, and it is that policies are there to decide,” he added. “The parliament has led a reflection on a number of so-called behavioral taxes “like oils, flour, margarine, chocolate, soft drinks, said Mr. Eckert. If there were changes in terms of VAT or taxes, “we attacherions us that the product of this tax is constant”, ie there is no overall increase in taxation has assured the official.
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