DENMARK’S FAT TAX PROVOKES UPSET IN POWERFUL DANISH FOOD SECTOR
May 1st, 2011
BY GERARD O'DWYER
THE DANISH government has turned its face against a storm of criticism following confirmation by its ministry of taxation yesterday (May 12), that prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen's centre-right administration plans to proceed with the implementation of a controversial saturated food fat tax on October 1. This is despite widespread opposition from Denmark's powerful food industry.
It applies to meats, including chicken and pork, cheese, butter, edible vegetable oil, margarine and certain other foods such as potato-based snacks. The tax is ...
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