sugar intake. This research is the first to get closer to the aim of the policy by evaluating the effect of the soda tax … sugar densities across beverages, this setting provides information about how a tax levied at volume, rather than sugar … incentivized consumers to buy drinks with higher sugar concentrations among tax beverages and that a levy at the sugar content …

a few global soft drinks brands reduced sugar content and hence avoided the tiered levy. For brands that maintained … their original sugar content, the levy was on average over-shifted resulting in substantial retail price increases … in response to the tax. In total, the levy is responsible for a reduction in intake of just under 6,500 calories from …