{"id":6867,"date":"2012-11-19T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:28:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:28:41","slug":"why-denmark-gave-up-on-a-fat-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-denmark-gave-up-on-a-fat-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Denmark Gave Up On A Fat Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/111912_0935_WhyDenmarkG1.jpg\" width=\"641\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A year ago Denmark introduced a &#8216;fat-tax&#8217; of 16 kroner (US$2.70) per kilogram of saturated fats in a product. The tax ministry has just announced that the tax is being revoked. What happened? Olga Khazan explained:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Danes were just crossing the border to indulge themselves at lower prices; thus hurting local Danish businesses.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover businesses had to pay additional administrative costs to comply with the requirements of the tax law.<\/li>\n<li>A proposed tax on sugar has also been cancelled due to concerns that it would have similar effects.<\/li>\n<li>Hungary, France, and the United Kingdom should take note \u2013 they too are considering implementing similar policies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how Danish obesity rates compare with American ones, and why the problem might have been that the tax was too low over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2012\/11\/11\/what-the-world-can-learn-from-denmarks-failed-fat-tax\/?tid=socialss\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2012\/11\/11\/what-the-world-can-learn-from-denmarks-failed-fat-tax\/?tid=socialss\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago Denmark introduced a &#8216;fat-tax&#8217; of 16 kroner (US$2.70) per kilogram of saturated fats in a product. The tax ministry has just announced that the tax is being revoked. What happened? Olga Khazan explained: Danes were just crossing the border to indulge themselves at lower prices; thus hurting local Danish businesses. Moreover businesses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/111912_0935_WhyDenmarkG1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6877,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions\/6877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}