Sugar-containing beverages
Sugar-containing beverages — for the purposes of this Code, sugar-containing beverages are considered to be those packaged in consumer or transport packaging, manufactured using drinking or mineral water (excluding those manufactured and packaged by organizations and individual entrepreneurs providing services in the field of public catering), which contain sugar (glucose, fructose, sucrose, dextrose, maltose, lactose), and/or syrup with sugar, and/or honey, and the amount of carbohydrates in their nutritional value is more than 5 grams per 100 ml of beverage. At the same time, the volume share of ethyl alcohol in these beverages should not exceed 1.2 percent inclusive1.
Tax Code of the Russian Federation, as amended on 01.01.2025, Article 181, subpara. 23 // Official Gazette of the Russian Federation. 2000. No. 32. Art. 3340. ↩