Salois, Matthew J.; Tiffin, J. Richard - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
. The fat tax is based on the saturated fat content of food items while the thin subsidy is applied to select fruit and … vegetable items. The policy is designed to be revenue neutral so that the subsidy exactly offsets the revenue from the fat tax … policy. Results show that while the fat tax decreases saturated fat intake, consumption of other important nutrients is also …