According to data provided to us by the Ministry of Health, after almost two years of operation of the sugar tax, its revenues have reached 3 billion zł. Initially, receipts at this level were expected after a year of operation of the board. The ministry notes that after taxation, more than 60% of drinks have changed the composition in terms of sugar or juice content.
January 1 this year Two years have passed since the introduction of the sugar tax. In practice, this is a tax on sweetened drinks. Although its regulation lies with the sellers and not with the consumers, for the latter it has been associated with an increase in the prices of these drinks. The fee is divided into fixed and variable parts. The fixed part is PLN 0.50 per liter of a drink with sugar and/or sweetener, the surcharge is PLN 0.10 per liter of a drink with caffeine and/or taurine. In turn, the variable part is PLN 0.5 for each gram of sugar in excess of its content of 5 grams per 100 ml per liter of drink. The upper limit of the fee is set, which is PLN 1.20 per liter of drink.
Sugar tax. What is the income after 2 years?
The initiator of the sugar tax was the Ministry of Health. The ministry emphasized that it was about promoting healthy eating among Poles, but also did not hide the fact that the income that the tax will bring is not without significance (96.5 percent of the funds from the collection goes to the National Health Fund, the remaining 3.5 percent to the National health care fund) to the state budget).
The editors of Wprost.pl asked the ministry about the income from the sugar tax over the past two years. – income from the so-called sugar tax in 2021 amounted to more than PLN 1.6 billion (exactly PLN 1,625,517,929.30), and from January 2022 to October 2022 - more than PLN 1.3 billion (exactly PLN 1,344,670,907.53) – Maria Kuznyar from the Communications Department of the Ministry of Health gives us.
Source: Wprost
