The request for a VAT cut on organic food marks the beginning of Organic Food Iberia in Spain
Spain
Published Sep 9, 2021
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The president of the Association of Spanish Supermarket Chains (ACES), Aurelio del Pino, in the presentation of the round table "Ecological products in the daily supermarket basket" has defended "a specific tax treatment, with a reduction in VAT applied" for bioproducts. In this way, such foods would be "more competitive" and would help to "offset the higher production costs" that they have compared to conventional ones and that makes them more expensive for the consumer since it is necessary to "take into account the environmental benefits ”Of organic agriculture and livestock, he commented. This measure has been endorsed by those responsible for Alcampo, Carrefour, El Corte Inglés, and Eroski who then participated in the round table and who have agreed that consumer information must be improved on how to recognize an organic product and what differentiates it. the rest. Del Pino recalled that reducing taxation "is already suggested in the action plan for the development of organic produce that the European Commission presented on March 25".
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The president of the Association of Spanish Supermarket Chains (ACES), Aurelio del Pino, in the presentation of the round table "Ecological products in the daily supermarket basket" has defended "a specific tax treatment, with a reduction in VAT applied" for bio products. In this way, such foods would be "more competitive" and would help to "offset the higher production costs" that they have compared to conventional ones and that make them more expensive for the consumer, since it is necessary to "take into account the environmental benefits ”Of organic agriculture and livestock, he commented. This measure has been endorsed by those responsible for Alcampo, Carrefour, El Corte Inglés and Eroski who then participated in the round table and who have agreed that consumer information must be improved on how to recognize an organic product and what differentiates it. the rest. Del Pino recalled that reducing taxation "is already suggested in the action plan for the development of ...
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