Is ‘fat tax’ of any use? (South Asia Monitor)

Kerala’s Left Democratic Front government has come up with the idea of taxing junk food such as burgers and pizzas served in branded restaurants at 14.5 per cent. The budget proposal itself is not a bad one — it’s always healthy to tax people so they stay healthy — but 14.5 per cent seems well over the top when you consider eating junk food is no longer the preserve of the relatively well-off in India as it was in the 1980s, when foreign brands first came in. The cheapest McDonald’s burger today is vegetarian and costs just Rs 32.

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