{"id":79456,"date":"2025-11-29T06:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79456"},"modified":"2025-11-29T06:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:09:12","slug":"man-flags-risks-of-proposed-sugar-sweetened-beverage-tax-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/29\/man-flags-risks-of-proposed-sugar-sweetened-beverage-tax-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"MAN Flags Risks of Proposed Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), has raised concerns over the proposed increase in excise duty on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), warning that it could threaten jobs, disrupt local production, and deter investment in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the Senate Joint Committee on Finance, Adeniyi Folorunsho, MAN\u2019s Director at the Abuja Liaison Office, noted that companies in the SSB industry are already operating on thin margins, and a higher tax could weaken plant viability and push consumers toward informal, potentially unsafe products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch a move could destabilise one of Nigeria\u2019s most enduring manufacturing sectors,\u201d MAN stated, urging lawmakers to suspend the proposal until it aligns with the Executive\u2019s fiscal policies.<\/p>\n<p>Citing World Health Organization assessments, MAN challenged claims that SSBs are a major driver of obesity and other noncommunicable diseases, pointing out that Nigeria\u2019s per capita sugar intake remains among the lowest globally.<\/p>\n<p>The association warned that unchecked tax hikes could shrink the sector\u2019s Gross Value Added and negatively impact micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, projecting a potential drop in sector output from \u20a61.5 trillion to \u20a61.1 trillion by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>MAN called for evidence-based policies that balance public health objectives with economic sustainability, protect jobs, and safeguard Nigeria\u2019s manufacturing base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), has raised concerns over the proposed increase in excise duty on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), warning that it could threaten jobs, disrupt local production, and deter investment in the sector. Speaking before the Senate Joint Committee on Finance, Adeniyi Folorunsho, MAN\u2019s Director at the Abuja Liaison Office, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79458,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79456\/revisions\/79458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}