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24th Dec, Friday
Ireland's Chewing Gum Tax to Rack in S$11 million/year
Gum has been banned in Singapore for 10-11 years. Harsh measure. I do chew gum before the ban and detest being stuck with gum on my shoe sole and clothes. Most irksome is some lunatic stick his chewed gum on the elevator button!Restriction on freedom? What about the wastage of taxpayers money cleaning up the sticky shit?
The government had installed chewing-gum bins in public places to discourage people from littering, but this did not really work. So, this has now given way to the more draconian measure of levying a chewing gum tax. A consultation paper put out by a litter-monitoring body recommended that the Irish government impose a mandatory levy of 10 per cent on the manufacturer, distributor or importer of chewing gum. It said the industry should 'share the responsibility of the pollution caused by its products'.
12 million euros would be spent on cleaning up chewing-gum litter. Idea of a tax comes as the Irish government moves to get tough with other anti-social behaviour. It banned smoking in pubs in March after imposing a levy on plastic bags in March 2002. The levy, meant to reduce litter pollution, resulted in a 90 per cent decrease in the use of disposable plastic bags. It also generated some 20 million euros in funds which now go towards environmental projects. Prior to the introduction of the levy, plastic bags made up 5 per cent of national litter. It now makes up only 0.3 per cent.
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