So now we know; it's to be a special levy only on manufacturers of drinks with added sugar, hence an expensive complicated bureaucratic new system as I suspected. But you will still be able to buy Tate & Lyle sugar (zero tax) and add as many spoonfuls as you wish to your tea, coffee, or glass of Diet Coke entirely tax free.
I'm Type 1 Diabetic so don't really have the choice of diet or full sugar drinks.Take a look at the ingredients that the manufacturers put in so called diet drinks? It deff ain't good for you
irn bru in the highest tax band :Hilarious: magic. what you thinking now bars? made the wrong decision back 2014? :Hilarious:.
what they gonna use now?more aspertame? my kid was recently diagnosed as allergic. bad headaches. nasty stuff.
I've read a few reports that state "Aspartame" if ingested in heavy quantities is a Cancer risk- your boy is better off being allergic to it
luckily they both aint to keen on sweets or chocolate.the daughter prefers raw carrot and lettuce. wtf? i dont recall them ever ever drinking coke. its in a lot of drinks tho. including fruit juice.
If you google "Aspartame side effects" it's pretty bloody scary shit - it seems to be in a hell of a lot of foods and not just fizzy pop products? In fact the 2/3 major players in the USA diet drinks market are looking to drop it from their products on advice of the FDA - so there must be some truth in it???
yeh. we did a bit of research into it. it will floor him for half a day. so we have to keep a look out. and your right. nasty nasty stuff.
I grew up in 1960/70's and we never had fizzy pop in house apart from lemonade at Christmas! If I told my dad I was thirsty he always had the same reply - " there's a tap in the kitchen"
Is it just me? When matey was posing with the budget box,case or whatever they call it - did he look the most uncomfortable Mr Bean like man you've ever seen?
The radio this evening said the tax was likely to apply to gin and tonic - bloody hell, that is a step too far. My daughter was never given fizzy drinks as a child and she doesn't drink them now aged 26, assuming you discount the odd G&T.
