US EditionMexico declares war on sugary drinks: More taxes, less tolerance
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Mexico City—Mexico declared war on the “epidemia of sodas.” From Palacio Nacional, President Claudia Sheinbaum and her health office announced their decision to continue with the increase to the Special Tax on Production and Services (IEPS) for sugary drinks, which will go from 1.5 pesos per litre in 2023 to 3.1 pesos in 2026. The measure aims to reduce 7% consumption in the first year and generate an additional 41 billion pesos that will be all…
The government previews to raise 41,000 mdp and to reduce the consumption of soft drinks by 7% from the increase of the IEPS to sugary drinks.
Civil society organizations applauded the federal government’s proposal to increase taxes on sugary drinks and tobacco in the 2026 Economic Package. However, they considered that the current proposals “are still limited and require strengthening by Congress.”
Mexico declares war on sugary drinks: More taxes, less tolerance
In Mexico, sugary drinks have been banned from schools and labeled with warnings, and nine out of 10 people know they’re harmful to their health. But Mexicans continue to consume them, and the government wants to change that. In a new front in his battle against sugar, Finance Secretary Édgar Amador on Monday announced an increase in the Special Tax on Sugary Drinks Production and Services as part of the 2026 Economic Package. The measure, he no…
The Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) has state-of-the-art equipment at the first level of care for the timely detection and control of diseases related to the consumption of sugary beverages such as diabetes, hypertension and kidney failure, said the director general, Zoé Robledo. During the morning press conference: “The morning of the people”, by the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Zoé Robledo stressed that the appearance…
Measure in favor of health, without collection purposes: Sheinbaum The president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo addressed, this morning, the increase to the Special Tax on Production and Services (IEPS) that will be applied to sugary drinks, discarding that it is a matter of collection but of health. Do not take so many sugary drinks, that is not abused [...] The charge of the Government of Mexico increases taxes on sugary drinks appeared first in Cent…
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