date:Jul 17, 2012
foods high in sugar, salt and saturated fats.
The organisation added that such taxes distort the EU food market and hit low-income families, who spend larger shares of the their income on food
Caobisco believes that there are no healthy or unhealthy foods but only healthy and unhealthy diets,said the report.
The taxes
The Finnish tax, which came into effect at the beginning of 2011, puts a 75 euro cents levy to the kilogram on sweets and chocolate.
The Danish fat tax imposes an extra 16 Kro