Dr M: Sugar tax to fund healthy breakfast programme in schools


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 19 Mar 2019

KUALA LUMPUR: The government will use revenue collected from the upcoming soda tax to fund a programme to provide free healthy breakfasts for primary school students, says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The Prime Minister said that revenue collected from the soda tax would be channelled to the proposed programme from next year.

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