It is still planning to. Latest article is https://archive.is/hgrOX Thing is, it's all a big cop out. Blame sugar. Blame the 'drug,' go to 'war' on the 'drug.' We know that doesn't help that much, when little-miss "water makes me gag hur-der-hurr" will spend over the odds to get its paws on the sugary fix. Sure, it'll raise a tiny bit of revenue. That pales into the insignificant black hole of an annual £6bn bill for the cost of obesity on the NHS. Sure, it'll virtue signal that perhaps it's just a little bit bad for health to down litres of pop. But, sensible folk already know that. Meh. I'm just salty today.  It won't achieve much.  Retailers and soda producers are already health washing other products ("look how good for you our SmartestWater is" etc) The problem is fatties themselves. Not the products.  In fact, our politicians are backing away from tackling it whatsoever as they know there might be a general election on the horizon and, shit, we can't be telling fatties not to be good little consumers for the sake of our asses in tenuously positioned elite realms of power whilst dictating cuts and hard brexit... "shit, anyone might really start to assume we fucking detest these poor cunts on welfare." That and the politicians that vote for this shit are also generally fatter than their constituents. Something, something corporate dinners on the taxpayer subsidised trough in the fancy Palace of Westminster canteens and, oh, complimentary bloody drinks at the banker's Christmas bash, again.    So, yeah, the stuff I like to drink occasionally will be re-formulated into oblivion to fit the arbitrary limits. Sucks to see chocolate, drinks and everything else change because we can't tell fatties that obesity is bad for all of us... (feelings and PC fat shaming culture etc) Sucks to see the sugar tax be used as a stealth tax on already heavily taxed alcohol, although that's also never limited consumption in a binge drinking culture of fatties and lager louts. So a night out or drinks in will cost me more.  All because fats can't get a bloody handle on their own bleak outlook of strokes and other non-communicable diseases alongside suppressed immune systems.  I fucking hate these fat bastards, and recently especially fat politicians.