Tag: tax
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Once more with feeling…Barnaby Joyce on the merits of a sugary drinks tax
When I looked up from marking exams and saw the look on Barnaby Joyce’s face, I just knew he was seeing red about the Grattan Institute’s proposal for a sugary drinks tax, levied at a rate of 40 cents per 100 grams of sugar. The Grattan Institute report estimates that such a tax would…