{"id":48,"date":"2026-08-21T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/our-work\/a-tax-that-works-on-sugary-drinks\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:05:11","slug":"a-tax-that-works-on-sugary-drinks","status":"publish","type":"cefroht_file","link":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/?cefroht_file=a-tax-that-works-on-sugary-drinks","title":{"rendered":"A Tax That Works on Sugary Drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda taxes sugar sweetened beverages, but the rate is low enough that it changes government revenue more than it changes what people drink.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence from countries that set the rate high enough is consistent: consumption falls, reformulation follows, and the revenue can be earmarked for the health services that treat the resulting disease. The design detail matters more than the headline. A tax on volume behaves differently from a tax on sugar content.<\/p>\n<p>We are building the fiscal and legal case for a rate and a structure that would actually shift behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda taxes sugar sweetened beverages, but the rate is low enough that it changes government revenue more than it changes what people drink. The evidence from countries that set the rate high enough is consistent: consumption falls, reformulation follows, and the revenue can be earmarked for the health services that treat the resulting disease. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":50,"template":"","cefroht_theme":[16],"class_list":["post-48","cefroht_file","type-cefroht_file","status-publish","hentry","cefroht_theme-healthy-diets-ncds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/cefroht_file\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/cefroht_file"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/cefroht_file"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/cefroht_file\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cefroht_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcefroht_theme&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}