Sugar tax extended to milk-based drinks
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The expansion will take in ‘pre-packaged milk-based and milk-alternative drinks with added sugar like supermarket milkshakes, flavoured milks, sweetened yoghurt drinks, chocolate milk drinks, and ready-to-drink coffees’. Meanwhile, the threshold for the tax would fall from 5 grams to 4.5 grams of sugar per 100ml.
MILKSHAKES and lattes will be clobbered with a sugar tax at tomorrow’s Budget, the Health Secretary confirmed today. Milk-based drinks are currently exempt from the sweet tax introduced by