A French Senate committee has issued a report, “Taxation and Public
Health: Evaluation of Behavioral Taxation,” urging lawmakers to implement
a “behavioral tax” to counteract poor dietary habits and help cover health
care expenditures associated with consumption of “unhealthy” foods. While
emphasizing the need for a sugar-sweetened beverage tax, the report also
advocates harmonizing tax rates on vegetable oils, aligning cigarette and
other tobacco product taxes, and repealing value-added tax breaks for certain
foods and drinks linked to increased health care costs. See Tax-News.com,
March 20, 2014.

 

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For decades, manufacturers, distributors and retailers at every link in the food chain have come to Shook, Hardy & Bacon to partner with a legal team that understands the issues they face in today's evolving food production industry. Shook attorneys work with some of the world's largest food, beverage and agribusiness companies to establish preventative measures, conduct internal audits, develop public relations strategies, and advance tort reform initiatives.

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