Comments on: Govt To Introduce Amendments To Sugar Tax

By: truthertz

truthertz — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:52:17 +0000

Not true.

By: Question

Question — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:55:52 +0000

I wish they would stick to renaming streets and putting up statues.

By: Coach

Coach — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:24:04 +0000

Plus added labor cost..
Look at how many Ex Pats work as managers and work out what the extra 5% pension payment does to the cost of doing business..

The tax on those fruits and vegetables was 5% so now 0 = 5 cents on the dollar.. Not allot..

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:36:44 +0000

Probably nullified by the increase in the FCPT

By: PANGAEA

PANGAEA — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:25:30 +0000

I tell kids to eat a bar of chocolate just before they take an exam because chocolate sharpens the memory.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 22:29:28 +0000

This lot can’t do anything right. How often do laws & regulations rushed through with little thought have to return to the HOA for amendments for basic oversights. By all means tax candy & non diet soda but sugar is a staple food.

This from the crowd who wants to take over health insurance & talks about independence.

By: Paulo

Paulo — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 21:47:53 +0000

I read somewhere that some fruits and vegetables now have 0% Tax. If so, it’s not being passed on to the consumer.

By: Guy Carri

Guy Carri — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:58:11 +0000

“Notwithstanding the foregoing, additional funding, from Sugar Tax receipts, have been allocated to the Ministry of Health to work with local restaurants on an initiative to add nutritional information to menus.”

Jokes bie. Stop ya noise. Like the grocery app that the grocers ain’t yet heard of.

All that happened is the PLP new tax was spread over all goods. Instead of making the sugary item way higher priced, it’s now a little higher plus some other stuff made a little higher in order to make up the cost. Garbage plan producing garbage results….other than gov making millions more from the people already struggling.

By: James

James — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:27:50 +0000

Perhaps charging a tax based on the actual sugar content would be good … like 1 cent per gram? I have bottle of Iced Tea beside me … says it contains 2.5 servings with 24 grams of sugar per serving … so the tax would be 60 cents.
Unfortunately this would mean that on a ten pound bag of white sugar, the tax would be $45.36 … but at least it would be more realistically a tax on sugar.

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:43:37 +0000

“Noting that sometimes the Sugar Tax has led to some items containing relatively small amounts of sugar being taxed — like Sugar Free Coffee Mate …”

Too bad no one cautioned about such things when the Sugar Tax was introduced!

By: while the economy spirals out of control

while the economy spirals out of control — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:13:58 +0000

we are tinkering with a sugar tax, changing public holiday names and promising a revision to an archaic ownership law that will not work as proposed.

Is anyone else thinking that this lot has lost the plot???

Jah love abounds…

By: Donderered

Donderered — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:44:15 +0000

Wow – so government screwed up and screwed us@