The basket is assembled again from this Tuesday, October 1st, after the VAT reduction will end of the staple foods -bread, eggs, vegetables, fruit and olive oil-. These went from 0% to 2%. While the seed pastes and oilswhose reduction has also expired, are now at 7.5% – before they were at 5% -.
Even if it means a difference of a few cents in the products compared to the previous price, the truth is that it is going to cost us dearly, because a increase in the price of the basket of 36 euros per year.
“Eggs went from 1.90 euros to 2.10 euros; fruits and vegetables, from 1.50 euros to 1.80 euros; and milk went from 80 cents to 91 cents“, explains the manager of a store. For his part, a fruit seller reports that the “increase has been significant”: “Watermelon has also increased a little”, he specifies.
Likewise, and after applying the new VAT, a famous supermarket chain decided Inform your customers of the increase with signs at checkoutswhich he did not do when the tax was reduced, so many customers did not like the measure. “Playing politics with food doesn’t seem right to me,” denounces one woman.
The Consumers and Users Organization believes that the measure should have been extended for longer. “The circumstances are not yet ripe for consumers to see their purchasing power regained. Our study on supermarkets indicates that prices have increased by 35.5% in the last three years“, says Enrique García, spokesperson for the OCU.
Furthermore, of January 2025, these taxes will return to normalthat is, they will resurrect up to 4 and 10%. “I’ll try to scrape from one place to another, you have to eat,” explains one man, while another consumer says she will look for “more offers.” The current increase will cost us 36 euros per year in our basket and in 2025 it will be double.
