The Boston City Council will soon consider whether to adopt a special tax on beverages including soda and sugary drinks. This ill-timed and unnecessary idea, if supported by both the City Council ...

Boston city councilors on Wednesday introduced a tax on sweetened beverages to fund public health initiatives. The so-called ...

Below, readers share their thoughts, concerns, and suggestions for a sugary drinks tax in Boston. “People will just go over the border to other towns to ‘stock’ up, and in the end this will ...

I don’t want regressive taxes. But I do want a market that reflects the true costs of things, and the hidden price of sugar in our diets is staggering. At a time when federal support for health ...

Only juices with added sugar would be taxed, pure fruit juices would not be. It would be a 2 cent tax per ounce. On a 12 ...

In 2014, Berkeley, California enacted a penny-an-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened drinks. Within months, consumption in the city dropped and that decline is holding. Soda tax moves forward in ...

Connecticut's tax-writing committee heard opposition from industry over a proposed two-cents-per-ounce tax on beverages.