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Should Lucozade be exempted from the sugar tax?
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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1105359" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>I'm not sure I understand what you mean by welfare costs?</p><p></p><p>It would be nice to just claim the tax back, but that isn't an option that is currently available for VAT on hypo treatments (i think because it would be vulnerable to abuse) so I can't see that happening. I would also be concerned that if the sugar tax adds <8p onto the cost of the hypo treatment it would probably cost more to process the request for the rebate than the rebate itself. </p><p></p><p>That's why I thought a compromise position, which wouldn't have too large an administrative cost if the sugar tax is being used to fund healthy lifestyle education anyway, would be to ensure that some money raised from lucozade/glucojuice went to fund education for diabetic kids on managing insulin and exercise. That education might then reduce the need for hypo treatments (I'm an optimist) and it would certainly make me feel less like it was a hypo tax/punishment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1105359, member: 32394"] I'm not sure I understand what you mean by welfare costs? It would be nice to just claim the tax back, but that isn't an option that is currently available for VAT on hypo treatments (i think because it would be vulnerable to abuse) so I can't see that happening. I would also be concerned that if the sugar tax adds <8p onto the cost of the hypo treatment it would probably cost more to process the request for the rebate than the rebate itself. That's why I thought a compromise position, which wouldn't have too large an administrative cost if the sugar tax is being used to fund healthy lifestyle education anyway, would be to ensure that some money raised from lucozade/glucojuice went to fund education for diabetic kids on managing insulin and exercise. That education might then reduce the need for hypo treatments (I'm an optimist) and it would certainly make me feel less like it was a hypo tax/punishment. [/QUOTE]
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