Basic necessity food guide: will eggs go down? and meat and fish?

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The classification of food based on its need derives from the times when the availability of some was a problem

The Government’s decision to eliminate or reduce VAT on some foods and not touch, on the other hand, that of others has already sparked controversy, especially in the meat and fishing sectors, which do not understand why their products are not considered essential .

To understand it, at least fiscally, one must look at Law 37/1992, which, although it has undergone several modifications, is the one that regulates the application of the Value Added Tax (VAT). It establishes when the general rate (21%) should be applied and when exceptions can be made to tax an item or service with the reduced rate (10%) or the super-reduced rate (4%).

Although this law does not define at any time which foods are considered essential, in its article 91 it states that 10% must be applied to “substances or products, whatever their origin, that, due to their characteristics, applications, components, preparation and state of conservation, are likely to be habitually and suitably used for human or animal nutrition. To this general rule, the text then applies a series of exceptions that reduce taxation to 4% in some cases.
(bread, flour, milk, cheese, eggs, fruits, vegetables, vegetables, legumes, tubers and cereals) or they leave it at 21% in others, such as alcoholic beverages.

This differentiation is the one that the Government has now followed to change the VAT assuming that basic food items are those that had the rate at 4%. To this reduction, another one is added for pasta and oil (which the 1992 law does not mention), which go from being taxed at 10% to being taxed at 5%. However, it is a classification that not only does not please the meat or fishing sectors, which have already shown their disagreement through separate communications from the Federation of Provincial Associations of Retail Entrepreneurs of Fish and Frozen Products and the National Association of Food Industries. the meat of Spain. Nor does it coincide with the criteria, proposed by the Spanish Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the General Council of Official Colleges of Dietitians-Nutritionists, which as a measure against inflation already requested in October that VAT be eliminated from “basic and healthy” foods ». In their list they included fruits, vegetables, whole grain products and cereals, legumes, nuts, olive and seed oil, eggs, milk and dairy products such as yogurt or fresh cheese, fish and white meat, mainly from poultry. .

duty free food

Products that in 2023 will not have VAT, and that now had it established at 4%

-Pan

-Milks

-Eggs

-Queso

-Fruits

-Vegetables

-Legumes

-Vegetables

-Tubercles

-Flours

-Cereals

Food with reduced VAT

Foods that see VAT cut in half by going from 10% to 5% in 2023:

-Pasta

-Oil

They keep the VAT

Food that will have a VAT of 10%:

-Carnes

-Fish

Food that will have a VAT of 21%:

– Those considered less necessary, such as juices, soft drinks, alcoholic drinks and soft drinks with added sugars.

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