Why Are Coffee Shop Chains Still Excempt From The Sugar Tax?

[barney15c]

Just reading in the worst case some of these seasonal drinks contain 23 teaspoons of sugar or over 93g of sugar. This is more than 3 cans of Coca Cola which does come under the sugar tax.
This makes a complete mockery of the whole initiative. Its bad enough these chains don't pay enough direct taxes as it is, let alone one that is supposed to help in the fight against obesity. This needs to be urgently addressed. I'd rather they cut the sugar down than be taxes but will this ever happen. On an aside one of the Seasonal drinks sold promotes to be health as it is made with oat milk but is then topped with Dairy Whipped Cream, where is the sense in that? Absolutely absurd.

[jno]

fair enough, theprof.

[theprof]

I'm grateful that you asked the question jno. It was both sensible and pertinent. Thank you.

[Jackdaw33]

The solution seems simple enough to me.Take your own sugar with you and buy sugarless coffee. Simples, no tax.

[Gromit]

You can tax (massively) Coca Cola and Pepsi for the large amountS of sugar in their manufactured drinks.
There are millions of cans and bottles in thousands of supermarkets.
A Cafe is under entirely different jurisdiction. Every drink is unique and tailor made. If the customer asks for lots of sugar, they get it (usually in self administered sachets.
The Government aren’t going to spend £million pursuing Berts’s Cafe when there are far bigger fish to fry.