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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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