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Italy delays again contested tax on sweetened drinks to 2026
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on June 20, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on June 20, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Italy delays its sugary drinks tax to 2026 after backlash from producers. The tax, initially set for 2020, has faced multiple postponements.
ROME (Reuters) -Italy's contested tax on sugary drinks will be postponed again and will not come into force before early 2026, the co-ruling League party said on Friday.
The levy was originally due to be applied at the start of 2020, but a backlash from producers persuaded successive Italian administrations to repeatedly postpone its implementation.
Rome will now postpone its entry into force for another six months, to January next year, League lawmakers Riccardo Molinari e Massimiliano Romeo said in a statement.
Italy's cabinet was expected to adopt the decree needed to postpone the tax later on Friday.
(Reporting by Giuseppe Fonte, editing by Alvise Armellini)
The sugary drink tax will not come into force before early 2026.
The tax's implementation has been postponed due to backlash from producers, prompting successive Italian administrations to delay it.
The tax's entry into force has been postponed for another six months, now set for January next year.
Italy's cabinet was expected to adopt the necessary decree to postpone the tax later on Friday.
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