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 ...

A Boston city councilor is hoping to kick sugar cravings to the curb by proposing a tax on sugary drinks that will be intended to make you think twice about choosing a sugary soda over water ...

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 ...

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 ounce drink, you would pay 24 cents more. The general manager of Foodworks says ...

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.