Fiji Water Shutting Down Bottling Plant in Fiji… Not.

Photo via afroswede Yesterday, Fiji Water, one of the iconic brands of bottled water, made rumblings of shutting down their Fiji-based bottling plant after the government announced a plant to bump up the business tax on bottled water from F$0.003 per liter to F$0.15 per liter. In fact — they did, closing their factory doors and firing 400 workers. For the company, the tax hike is an increase of F$0.5 million per year spent on water taxes to over F$22 million. While that’s a massive increase in how much is spent on taxes, it’s still small change … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fiji Water Shutting Down Bottling Plant in Fiji… Not.

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