"Like sugar, there can be a demand to tax salt."

Clamour for sugar tax to combat diabetes, obesity growing; industry unfazed 


Abinash Verma,director general, Indian Sugar Mills Association, the representative of the private sugar mills in the country also does not think that a sugar tax can work. "First of all, I question the basis of imposing a sugar tax. It is not sugar but fat and non-exercise that are responsible for obesity. Few countries tried imposing sugar tax. But it did not work there. Like sugar, there can be a demand to tax salt." 

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