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| Thread ID: 141896 | 2016-03-18 01:27:00 | Soft drinks with added Sugar. | mzee (3324) | PC World Chat |
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| 1417678 | 2016-03-18 04:11:00 | To put a tax on the sugar content of soft drinks is nonsense, people will still buy it. Of course they will! Look at the amount of tax on cigarettes and yet they still smoke. What makes the government think that taxing sugary drinks will stop them drinking it? Besides, bourbon goes very well with a dash of coke as does rum. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1417679 | 2016-03-18 08:03:00 | Just do drug tests on people reporting to doctors or hospitals (as if they were athletes). Any trace of sugar, send 'em to the cash-only queue. Every multi story building to have floor sections that are weight triggered, thus dropping the fatsos into the mincer to be made into garden fertiliser. (People with parcels would have to be pretty careful I suppose.) Lifts should have narrow doorways with razor sharp edges, horizontally expansive types need find the stairs which should be wide, but very steep. No problem at all, ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1417680 | 2016-03-18 19:01:00 | Bit like taxing tobacco isn't it....How dumb. They are taxing fizzy drinks. It's not about fizzy drinks - look at the sugar in everything - bread - I make my own and use no sugar at all. Sauces - tomato etc. So what about the sugar in those things? Then there are biscuits, cakes, sweetened yogurt etc etc. Anyone watched the fat people having surgery program on TV1? One guy, having fish and chips mentioned he had already had 2 burgers, 2 lots of chips and 2 sugar drinks before that. They stuff themselves, that's why so fat. And they say how cheap it is. It is. Unless you have a garden or access to cheap vege places, it is expensive to eat well. So taxing the drinks won't accomplish anything at all. I saw a few of the fat people, who are told to alter their diets and lose some weight first, cheating and/or reverting. I told husband the other day he needs to drink more beer, eat more burgers and pizzas. He needs to gain weight. LOL. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1417681 | 2016-03-18 19:12:00 | It will be like smoking the poor people and the blacks in New Zealand will not stop their consumption of sugary drinks one iota. They will just pay more. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1417682 | 2016-03-18 19:53:00 | wow nobody has mentioned alcamahol yet. That causes far more cost for society | wotz (335) | ||
| 1417683 | 2016-03-18 20:51:00 | I think that alcohol is already taxed. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1417684 | 2016-03-19 08:36:00 | I think that alcohol is already taxed. Very heavily. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1417685 | 2016-03-19 09:51:00 | Very heavily. The heavy tax has put me off drinking so much. :( |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1417686 | 2016-03-19 19:28:00 | Very heavily. Really? Compared to other developed nations, New Zealand’s alcohol tax excise rate is relatively moderate at 10% of the retail price for beer, 15% for wine, and 38% for spirits. The stuff doesn't look that expensive to me...I can get a bottle of wine of $8 $9.....OK, I just use it for cooking so not fussy but still... Compared with tobacco taxes. Of the total cost per pack: 15% is GST 67% of the price is tax. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1417687 | 2016-03-19 21:44:00 | But let us look at the other end of the scale for those of us that enjoy a Spirit. :) The Excise/Duty on a 1 litre bottle of 40% alcohol is $20.63 for a start and then comes 15% GST. Not sure whether they include the Excise/Duty when calculating the GST or not. If they do then they are taxing a tax which would come as no surprise. So Liquorland will sell you a 1 litre bottle Bombay Blue Sapphire 40% ABV for $46.99. The Excise/Duty on that is $20.63 and at best the GST would be $3.44 totalling $24.07 or 51% of the purchase price. I fixed that by acquiring a Still and making my own and the products taste better and better every time I look at my savings. :) |
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