France is hoping to fatten its budget and slim down its residents at the same time.

The country’s top constitutional body has voted to impose a tax on sugary drinks — a so-called “soda tax” — beginning Jan. 1 that is expected to help close its budget deficit.

The measure, which was announced in August and passed last week in Parliament, figures to add 120 million euros in state revenues and maybe trim some waistlines in the process.

Coca-Cola is among the companies that slammed the move, saying, “It stigmatizes our product,” according to eater.com.

Coke announced in September that, in “a symbolic protest against a tax that punishes our company,” it was pulling back on a 17 million euro investment at a plant in the south of France, according to the international news organization AFP and published on yahoo.com.

The tax increases soda costs by about one euro cent per can.