Sugar Tax applied to Fizzy drinks could be extended to the milkshakes and similar treats under the government goals.
Plans at the end of the exemption from a separate dairy, according to drinks, as well as non-dairy substitutes to an oats or rice, they are extinguished at the consultation on Monday.
Chancellor, Rachel, which has been mentioned in Her budget last year The command would be considering a larger tax to include both drank.
The treasure confirmed plans to press ahead with the changes in the Monday, as well as the proposal to reduce the maximum amount of sugar allowed in the drinks before they become in the soil of the 5G to 4g with 100ml.
As a result of the latest reformulation after initial announcement of so-called soft drinks energy loved (SDIL), 89% of flames are sold in the UK not to pay tax, the treasure said.
An estimated 203 Pre-packed milk-based drinks in the market, which make up 93% of sales in category, will hit with tax unless their sugar content is reduced under a new proposed, according to the government analysis.
The sdil was introduced by the conservative of April 2018 as part of their anti-obes drive. Exemption in the milk-based drinks to be included due to calcium consumption, especially among children.
However, the treasury said young people only to 3.5% of their calcium intake of such drinks, meaning “is also likely that the health benefits do not justify harms from excess sugar. “
“By carrying milk-based drinks and milk substitute drinks in Sdil, the government would introduce a tax incentive for manufacturers of these drinks to build an existing progress and to reduce sugar in the recipes” which is called.
Institute of economic things, a rightwing free-market thinktank, expressed from the cost of the consumers proposed changes.
“The sugar tax was such a dramatic failure to be abrogated, not expanded,” said Christopher Snowdon, the head of the lifestyle in the Institute.
“Sugar taxes never worked anywhere. What Starmer Promise does not take the taxes work people?”
The government consultation in plans and run by Monday to 21 July.