(FILES) Chocolates are seen on display on a stand during the opening day of the Salon du Chocolat de Paris 2024 (2024 Paris Chocolate Fair) in Paris on October 29, 2024. Last week, French MPs in committee added an amendment to the Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS) for 2025 providing for a tax on processed food products linked to their sugar content. Its fate between now and the final vote on the Social Security Financing Bill is uncertain. In mid-October 2024, the Institut Montaigne recommended in a report that VAT on various sweet products should be harmonised at 20% to finance the fight against food insecurity. Dark chocolate, currently taxed at 5.5%, was targeted. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP) (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)