Unió de Pagesos has demanded that the Government restore the reduced rate of 10% of the Value Added Tax (VAT) applied to diesel intended for agricultural uses, with the aim of alleviating the strong increase in fuel costs, as reported this Thursday in a statement.The agricultural organization has pointed out...
The cost of fuels has increased again this week and now totals seven consecutive rises, which represents an accumulated increase of more than 21.5% since the VAT reduction to 10% was no longer applied at the beginning of July.In the case of diesel, the average price per liter has risen...
The commercial company Canary Islands Fuel Company SL (Cifuel), investigated within the 'hydrocarbons case' being instructed by the National Court, would have improperly passed on to its clients amounts corresponding to the Value Added Tax (VAT) for various commercial operations and, afterwards, would not have transferred those amounts to the...
The Consumers and Users Organization (OCU) warns that food prices that make up the shopping basket have increased by 0.5% in July. This increase places the cost of essential products again very close to the maximum recorded in April, in light of the preliminary data of the year-on-year CPI for...
The Coordinator of Organizations of Farmers and Ranchers (COAG) has once again focused on the "strong rise" in agricultural diesel recorded in recent weeks. This new increase once again drives up the production costs of Spanish agricultural operations, immersed in the full harvest of cereal and fruit and on the...
The Council of Ministers is expected to give the green light next Tuesday, July 28, to a new housing decree law that will include the automatic extension of rental contracts until 2028, as well as the increase of VAT on tourist apartments to 21%.In the last meeting of the Council...
The Catalan Federation of Housing and Tourist Apartments Associations (Federatur), Pimec Turisme, and the employers' association Foment del Treball have expressed their outright rejection of the Government's proposal to apply a 21% VAT to tourist-use housing.The three organizations have issued statements following the announcement from the Executive to approve next...
The cost of fuels has recorded this week its third consecutive increase, accumulating already a rise of 10% in gasoline and almost 8% in diesel, after the reduction of VAT to 10% declined at the beginning of this month.In detail, the average price of a liter of gasoline has advanced...
The maximum retail price of the butane cylinder will register starting this Tuesday an increase close to 16% compared to the 15.39 euros of the last revision, reaching 17.83 euros, mainly due to the disappearance of the tax reduction, according to a resolution from the Official State Gazette (BOE).This update...
The Union of Professionals and Self-Employed Workers (UPTA) has denounced that millions of self-employed workers continue to assume "an essential function" in sustaining public coffers without receiving any direct compensation, and calls for a reform that maximally simplifies VAT management.The organization emphasizes that self-employed workers are the ones who charge...
The parliamentary groups have already shown their hands for the Draft Law on Cinema. The amendments to the articles are on the table. The parties that make up the Government, the PSOE and Sumar, have paid special attention to the support for co-official languages —out of conviction and, incidentally, as a nod to Junts to attract them towards a 'yes'—....
The Ministry of Finance has sent the draft agreement to update the regional financing system to the autonomous communities, according to sources from the Department headed by Arcadi España, who have informed Europa Press.Following this dispatch, a meeting of the technical committee will be held on Tuesday, July 14, to...
After five weeks of declines, the price of fuels is rising again. The end of the VAT reduction to 10% sent the price of gasoline up by 5.6% this week, returning to levels reached a month ago. Specifically, the average price per liter of gasoline rose this week to 1.517...
The plenary session of the European Parliament has urged the European Commission this Tuesday to study a possible reform of the VAT exemption applied to financial services, understanding that the current model fuels fiscal fragmentation in the European Union, complicates the integration of the single market, and opens the door...
The Regulated Last Resort Tariff (TUR) for gas, applied since this July 1 after the quarterly review, puts an end to the streak of reductions and adds around 104 euros annually to the bill of an average household with gas heating, according to Papernest's estimates.The update, published in the BOE...
The Spanish Confederation of Service Station Employers (CEEES) has warned that the cost of fuels will rise starting tomorrow, Wednesday, once the VAT reduction to 10% included in the first package of anti-crisis measures ceases to apply.With this tax modification, fuels will once again bear a VAT of 21%, in...
The Council of Ministers has decided to move forward in July with a new package of housing measures with the aim of reaching a "grand agreement" in the Congress of Deputies to face the difficulties of access to a home, among which is raising the VAT applied to tourist apartments...
The president of RTVE, José Pablo López, has called on the Popular Party (PP) this Thursday to "end the state of siege" to which, as he has denounced, it "is subjecting" the public Corporation, also warning that "they have decided to destroy it"."We live the urgency of being allowed to...
The Swiss Federal Council has presented an initiative to apply a temporary half-percentage point increase in the general VAT rate, which would thus rise to 8.6%, with the aim of allocating all additional revenue to strengthening the defense budget."The additional revenue will be entirely allocated to defense spending," the Swiss...
The lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, has sent the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, a document with 36 initiatives aimed at strengthening the protection of families and economic activity. Among them is the reduction of VAT on meat and fish to the super-reduced rate, from 10% to 4%, as well as...
The Council of Ministers has given its final approval this Tuesday, in a second reading, to the draft bill that modifies the Value Added Tax (VAT) Law to partially incorporate the European directive on VAT linked to the digital economy, whose first measures will begin to be applied from January...
The president of the Govern, Marga Prohens, has shown her rejection of an increase in VAT applied to the hospitality industry, understanding that the cost would end up being borne mainly by the fabric of the self-employed and the citizens of the Balearic Islands."We are against a tax increase that...
MÉS per Mallorca has registered in Parliament a non-binding proposal (PNL) with which it intends for the VAT applied to the hotel sector to go from the current reduced rate to 21 percent.According to the eco-sovereigntist spokesperson, Lluís Apesteguia, this upward revision of the tax is "logical and necessary," since...
MÉS per Mallorca has presented in Parliament a non-binding proposal (PNL) with which it proposes to increase the VAT rate applied to the hotel sector to 21 percent.The eco-sovereigntist spokesperson, Lluís Apesteguia, considers that this increase is "logical and necessary", understanding that the current reduced VAT of 10 percent represents...
The spokesperson for the Popular Parliamentary Group, José Ángel Sánchez Juliá, has censured that PSOE and Unidas por Extremadura continue to be installed in the "no to everything" policy after registering separate amendments in their entirety to demand the return of the bill for the General Budgets of the Autonomous...