# Sugar Tax
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Last year
2023
Health
Donnelly: Sugar tax will remain despite WHO saying artificial sweetener could cause cancer
30 Jun 2023
14.8k
51
All time
Exchequer
Sugar tax: Revenue from it more than doubled from €16m to €33m last year
28 Sep 2020
20.9k
15
Obesity
Call to extend sugar tax as part of 'drastic actions' to tackle childhood obesity
12 Nov 2019
11.6k
75
Obesity
Energy drinks contain up to 17 spoons of sugar and twice as much caffeine as an espresso
7 Oct 2019
103k
65
sweetening the deal
Supermarket own-brand products reduce sugar to avoid new 30c tax
1 May 2018
28.2k
71
Voices
Sugar Tax: Nanny State gone mad or a step in the right direction?
Sarah O'Brien
1 May 2018
20.0k
89
cut the fizz
Coke, 7UP and... tonic water? The drinks that will be hit by the sugar tax
10 Oct 2017
66.9k
147
budget 2018
The tourist industry could lose its 9% VAT rate as it's 'under consideration' for Budget 2018
28 Sep 2017
10.3k
53
The Daily Poll
Poll: Should Ireland ban junk food ads aimed at children from print and social media?
9 Dec 2016
12.1k
71
Sugar Tax
Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been quietly lobbying against anti-obesity measures in the US
15 Oct 2016
18.3k
41
Budget 2017
It's official: Ireland is getting a sugar tax (but not for a few years)
11 Oct 2016
15.0k
31
World Obesity Day
Over a third of young people drink sugary drinks most days of the week
10 Oct 2016
11.0k
54
Voices
Opinion: As someone who was 27 stone at the age of 21, we need more than a sugar tax to fix obesity
Alan Mullen
2 Oct 2016
868
78
The Daily Poll
Poll: Would you be happy to pay a sugar tax to help fight obesity?
22 Sep 2016
30.8k
186
Sugar Tax
How the sugar-trafficking food industry paid scientists to tell us fat, not sugar, was the real problem
13 Sep 2016
26.9k
63
fizzy orange
Ireland may wait for the UK's fizzy drinks tax before bringing in its own
4 Jul 2016
9.5k
36
Oh Sugar Sugar
Your can of Coke is about to cost more - a tax on sugary drinks is on the way
11 May 2016
36.0k
192
Voices
Ireland is on track to become the most obese country in Europe - it's time to tax sugar
James Larkin
20 Nov 2015
623
169