Justice has been served. The best bit about this is that Subway tries to market itself as a fresh healthy alternative to burgers. This probably should have never seen the inside of a courtroom because the brand damage this could do is surely worse than the VAT they might have had to pay in Ireland.
Ireland's Supreme Court has ruled that bread sold by fast food chain Subway contains so much sugar that it cannot be legally defined as bread.A panel of judges rejected the Irish chain's appeal ruling their bread contained too much sugar to be categorised as a "staple food", which is not taxed.
The law makes a distinction between "bread as a staple food" and other baked goods "which are, or approach, confectionery or fancy baked goods"
"There is no dispute that the bread supplied by Subway in its heated sandwiches has a sugar content of 10 per cent of the weight of the flour included in the dough, and thus exceeds the 2 per cent specified," the judgement read.
Subway disagreed with the characterisation in a statement.
"Subway's bread is, of course, bread," the company said in an email.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-...ntent/12724756