Posted on 04/28/2024 3:32:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Finland’s Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) is questioning a government proposal to raise the VAT value-added tax on sweets and chocolate.
The THL, a Finnish research and development institute which is attached to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, announced that it did not agree with the decision to raise the tax from 14 to 25.5 percent.
Talking to STT, the Finnish news agency, a senior THL investigator Heli Kuusipalo explained that the institute would prefer to see a sugar taxation system that was health-based rather than a direct VAT hike.
The higher the sugar content in any kind of item, the higher its price should be, the THL has suggested, as this would encourage manufacturers to reduce the amount of sugar in their products.
Kuusipalo also pointed out that recent studies have revealed that a growing percentage of Finns were in favour of increasing taxes on foods with a high sugar content.
Finland’s PM Petteri Orpo who heads the National Coalition Party announced raising VAT on confectionery as a sure way of raising more cash for the government, maintaining that current taxes are not covering outgoings. As a result, Finland risks a reprimand from Brussels for contravening the EU’s Growth and Stability Pact, Orpo warned.
The Finns are obviously pre-occupied with the Russian threat on their border... but less pre-occupied than they are about sugar in their diets.
Let’s teach the lab rats they are not allowed to eat chocolate.
27 countries gave up their national sovereignty so a group of sociopaths in Brussels could tell them what to do.
Hard enough to get through those Finnish winters… and now with higher taxes on sweets and chocolate? What next - vodka?!
Many….
Finland, Finland, Finland
The country where I want to be
Eating breakfast or dinner
Or snack lunch in the hall
Finland, Finland, Finland
Finland has it all
Stupid (largely appointed) Bureaucraps always create Ridiculous Rules of government.
And the citizens have NO input into removing the Insanity!
current taxes are not covering outgoings.
It just never occurs to them to go the other way !!!
Not every idea out of Brussels is bad. Most not all.
But the EU itself is an atrocity intended to facilitate the Franco-German domination of Europe.
Nany State.
Well join NATO to threaten Russia now you need lots and lots of money to build up a military.
Perhaps the Fins will soon be buying their sweets from unmarked trucks in back alleys.
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