Posted on 11/21/2022 5:39:19 PM PST by Nextrush
The excise will not apply to fermented beverages, kvass with ethyl alcohol content from 0.5% to 1.2% inclusive, juices, fruit nectars, juice-containing beverages and fresh fruit drinks
MOSCOW, November 21./TASS/.Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law recognizing sugary drinks as excisable items starting July 1, 2023.
The published document was initiated by the government, it amends the Russian Tax Code.
The excise rate is set a 7 rubles ($0.12) per liter. Non-alcoholic beverages produced with the use of sugar or other or other sweeteners containing more than 5 grams per 100 ml are recognized as sugary drinks...
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All politicians have to find something to tax, something to "raise revenue".
Here's Vlad's stab at it.
Soros ordered him to do it
All of Russia is now an American public school.
That started under Bloomberg in New York City.
The way around this tax is simple. Make the rumor true. Make Dr Pepper with plum juice.
Just what Russians need - an excuse to drink more vodka.
Gov. Mike Huckabee did stuff like that. Didn’t help cure his family obesity crisis per the group photo.
Putin is a Communist. He’s only doing what Bloomberg would do...
It’s all a gimmick something is dramatized or demonized adult beverages, cigarettes, sugary drinks, carbon usage and voila the taxes follow.
When it was on the ballot in SF, Bernie Sanders did a commercial against the Sosa tax.
...and Bloomberg.
A lot of folks here think I carry water for Vlad Putin but what a Liberal Democrat he is on this one taxing “sugary drinks”.
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Illinois did it in 2011...... Even before California.
OMG - its worse than we thought.
He’s Michael Bloomberg
Maybe the Daily Mail can cook up a love story involving Bloomberg and Putin.
They’ve pretty much put out everything else about Putin why not the stories of Putin and his gay lovers.
I’m part Ukrainian and part Russian.
I don’t know what to believe. Taken no side.
I’m hard pressed to think we should be funding this to the levels of mega-billions, especially since some of the military equipment we have sent to Ukraine has showed up on the black market.
Their bit coin got funneled into our leftist politicals. (and, to be fair, the Turtle.)
The results are our spending is screwing our kid’s future, major.
A tax on coffins would raise a lot of money for RuZZia.
Heard there is a big market for them.
Whatever the Russian word for “nanny” is, I guess that fits Vlad.
Revenue raiser pure and simple.
There’s a war on you know.
We did that Arkansas a long time ago
I guess I don’t understand why anyone in America cares. So they taxed sweet drinks. Who cares. Russia can tax what they want to tax.
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