How Guttridge can help drinks manufacturers to adjust to the sugar tax The sugar tax was introduced in the UK on Friday the 6 th April 2018. It is a controversial new tax that has been brought in by the current government and targets manufacturers of drinks that contain high levels of added sugar. The stated aim of the new tax is to attempt to reduce the levels of childhood obesity currently being witnessed in the UK, with a quarter of children now considered to be overweight by the time they start school. The UK is not the first country to introduce such a tax, but there are only a few other nations that have done so, including France, Norway and Mexico. There are in fact two different bands of taxation that have been introduced. For drinks with between 5 and 8 grammes of added sugar pe

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