Sugar Tax

To lower the consumption of sugar in drinks, Britain has enforced a sugar tax in 2016. The British government has noticed that the population is growing in terms of their size, the numbers of obese people are at an all time high. The cause is the amounts of sugar being put inside fizzy drinks. Britain has decided to tax the manufacturers of all fizzy drinks in the country. Due to the taxes the manufacturers would have to raise the price of their product to produce enough money to pay the tax. If they don’t pay the tax the British government would have to shut the company down.

The sugar tax could raise up to $1 billion NZ. If the tax would raise up to that cost, the price of the product would become very expensive and no one would want to buy the drink. If this were to happen to New Zealand it would mean the rate of people constantly buying fizzy drinks might lower.

In conclusion I think that the tax might help people buy less fizzy drinks and the rate of the population drinking sugar will go down in Britain. Fizzy drinks to hold lots of sugar, which is not good for the human body and maybe a sugar tax could help that. What do you think?