Special Consumption Tax will start to be applied as of January 1, 2023. Soft drinks whose content of added sugar or other sweeteners exceed 5 grams per 100 milliliters of the product will become cuttable. The excise duty also applies to drinks made on the basis of drinking or mineral water, in which the volume fraction of ethyl alcohol does not exceed 0.5%, as well as drinks based on alcohol-containing raw materials, the volume of which is not the most ethyl alcohol. 1.2%.
The excise duty will not apply to special drinks that have passed state registration and are included in the unified register of specialty food products. This category also includes fermented beverages, kvass with an ethyl alcohol content of 0.5% to 1.2%, juices, nectars, juice drinks and fruit drinks.
The authors of the bill assume that due to the introduction of the excise tax, additional revenues to the federal budget will amount to 35 billion rubles. All that money will go to the fight against diabetes.
Source: Ferra
