{"id":3073,"date":"2009-12-31T05:07:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T03:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2015-12-07T11:50:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:50:49","slug":"taiwan-junk-food-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/taiwan-junk-food-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Considering Junk Food Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinapost.com.tw\/taiwan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the China Post&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>The Bureau of Health Promotion (BHP) is drafting a bill to charge special tax on food that are considered unhealthy, such as sugary drinks, candies, cakes, oily fast food, and alcohol.According to the BHP Director General Shu Ti-chiou, the proposal aims to promote a healthier eating habit.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>&#8230;The BHP is expecting the Legislative Yuan to approve it by the end of next year and to enact the tariff in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, Taiwan could be the first country with a \u201cjunk food\u201d tax, local reporters said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be curious to see the details on this: how much the proposed tax will be,\u00a0the specific\u00a0foods\/products it will be\u00a0applied to, what the money will be used for, and &#8211; most importantly &#8211;\u00a0the effects the BHP\u00a0believes it will have on consumption.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the China Post&#8230; The Bureau of Health Promotion (BHP) is drafting a bill to charge special tax on food that are considered unhealthy, such as sugary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,17,24,28],"tags":[212,282,974,1863,1604],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10295,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/10295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}