Converted into a throwing weapon among detractors and defenders of the Government, the measure to abolish VAT on basic necessities and to reduce oil and pasta to 5%, in addition to not having moved entirely to the shelves, As the OCU explains, it also leaves curious situations on social networks.
This is what has happened on Twitter, where a user posted a purchase ticket where pay almost 70 euros for seven products, alluding in the text to “You can see the drop in VAT on purchases at Sanchez Carero 😅 €70 five things 😅”.
The supermarket to which the user refers is Sánchez Romero, known for being the most expensive supermarket in Spainalthough the reactions to the tweet were more visceral and did not target the supermarket (since it emphasizes on its website that it has applied the VAT reduction on all products) but rather the tweeter and the lack of judgment in his purchase decision and , above all, to criticize the drop in VAT if the ticket that was posted is attended to.
You can see the drop in VAT on the purchase in Sanchez Carero 😅 €70 five things 😅 pic.twitter.com/RRMtI5YH6k
— JaviZone 🧨 (@JavierSanz) January 2, 2023
The reality is that, analyzing the purchase, which amounts to a total of 68.67 euros, it is verified that part of the user’s complaint is unsubstantiatedsince more than 28 euros are allocated to wine, while another 16 euros are allocated to the purchase of two jars of orange blossom honey, in addition to almost four euros in cereals and another almost 2.30 euros in a coconut drink.
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In other words, of the entire ticket, more than 50 euros are allocated to products where the VAT reduction that the government has implemented has not entered and that will last until June 2023. The rest of the products in this user’s shopping cart are exempt from VAT.
It is the case of fresh fruits that appear in the rest of the ticket, as befits the banana-cranberry combo, the jar of cut coconut and the cut pineapple. In this case, the suppressed VAT does appear, although even so there was no lack of criticism of the user by trying to show the unnecessaryness of the measure when buying already cut fruits, which are much more expensive than whole fruits, and also in supermarkets from Spain.
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The case would have been different (we are no longer talking about different establishments), if the shopping cart had been focused on the following products, which Yes, they are those who have seen their VAT reduced:
- Common bread, as well as frozen common bread dough and frozen common bread intended exclusively for making common bread.
- Bread flours.
- Fruits, vegetables, legumes, tubers and cereals that have the status of natural products in accordance with the Food Code and the provisions issued for its development.
- Milk produced by any animal species: natural, certified, pasteurized, concentrated, skimmed, sterilized, UHT, evaporated and powdered.
- The cheeses.
- The eggs.
- Alimentary pasta (reduction to 5%).
- Olive and seed oils (5% reduction).
Images | Sanchez Romero / Twitter
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