GERMAN CONFECTIONERS OPPOSE SOCIAL DEMOCRAT PLAN FOR SUGAR TAX
April 21st, 2015
Germany's confectionery industry has sided with the federal government in a clash between the ruling parties in the country’s grand coalition over whether to impose stiffer taxes on sugar to boost public health. A proposal to raise the reduced VAT rate of 7% on confectionery and other sugar-based products to the standard VAT rate of 19% has been made by Elvira Drobinksi-Weiß, the consumer protection spokeswoman for the Social Democrat Party (SPD). She says this could help tackle Germany's obesity problems. But Germany's agriculture and nutrition minister ...
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