Excise Department Will Not Introduce Salt Tax This Year

[webfact]

 

By Natthaphon  Sangpolsit

    

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Excise Department has confirmed it will not introduce a salinity tax on high-sodium foods this year, in order to help alleviate the burden on Thai businesses.

 

According to the Department, the new tax will not be implemented this year soas to allow the Thai economy to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and the higher cost of living. The move comes after the government reduced the diesel excise tax by 3 baht per liter this week, relieving pressure on the Oil Fund, which had been impacted by subsidizing energy prices driven up by global market situations.

 

The salinity tax was previously proposed as a means of encouraging people to live healthier lifestyles. Thais on average consume about 1.8 teaspoons of salt per day, which is about twice the daily amount recommended by the World Health Organization.

 

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[Phuketshrew]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The salinity tax was previously proposed as a means of encouraging people to live healthier lifestyles.

Damn, I thought that was "senility" tax when I first read it. That would worry a few on here ????

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The salinity tax was previously proposed as a means of encouraging people to live healthier lifestyles.

Salt & sugar in products should be taxed to the limit.

The burden that puts on the health service with conditions in people during their lifespan is huge.

[law ling]

A public education campaign might get better results.

[mtls2005]

Assume they'd start with imported products first?

 

18 minutes ago, law ling said:

A public education campaign might get better results.

This is a typical first step, followed by incentives/promotions of production/use of low(-er) sodium formulations (cooking sauces, fish sauce here) in prepared foods.

 

Very few countries have implemented a salt or sodium tax. 

 

28 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

sugar in products should be taxed to the limit.

There was a proposal for a 20% tax on "sugary" drinks here. I think some version was set in place ~ 2018-ish.

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1000001-higher-taxes-on-sweetened-beverages-to-be-effective-this-month/

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8084227/

 

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Food-Beverage/Thai-sugar-producers-squeezed-by-drought-and-health-concerns

[xtrnuno41]

!.8 teaspoon? Guess it is merely in products sold in food in supermarkets. So thats the place you should go the producers of food.

Not by increasing tax. Ok, you can tax the foodindustrie, but that tax can not be in food price for consumers to get it back, then you make a point. You will see how fast producers change. 

[unblocktheplanet]

I thought Gandhi too care of that!?!

[zzaa09]

1 hour ago, unblocktheplanet said:

I thought Gandhi too care of that!?!

Speaking of which, we surely could use another Gandhi figure or two to keep them straight. 

It appears that most of the populations are straying to the hypnotic comfort of the fabricated and suppressed convention.