Criminal gangs smuggle sodas into Portugal to avoid sugar tax

10 comments
  1. Taxing sugar for people’s health is a shameful way of raising taxes.

    Guilting people into it, when it is clearly just another way of the state receiving tax.

  2. This worked quite well in Portugal to decrease consumption of sugar drinks. I wish every country in Europe would follow suit.

  3. How does smuggling work, exactly, across an internal border, a Schengen one even ? Under which conditions can a country unilateraly re-establish border controls ? I thought that those were only possible under emergency conditions.

    In the same vein, how is it possible for one member state to tax one foodstuff so basic as soft drinks without this being a Union-wide policy ?

    *(Incidently, I, for one, would be in favor of a Union-wide heavy tax on saccharose and such)*

  4. First they came for the sugar, I did not speak for I didn’t like sugar.

    Then they came for stamps, and there were no one left to speak for me.

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