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Tax on food equal to fat and sugar content

Submitted on Saturday 12th July 2014

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Tax on food equal to fat and sugar content

Additional Information

Impose a tax on fat and sugar equal to the percentage contained within processed foods.

The proceeds of this can then be used to subsidise healthier options/lifestyles and for NHS obesity treatments.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

Please see: Taxes on unhealthy food to improve national health

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