VAT on fresh milk, eggs and the bird was in Hungary reduced from the beginning of the year. The representative of the Ministry of Agriculture did not rule out on Tuesday a further decline in the future.
From 1 January, VAT on poultry and eggs has fallen from 27% to 5%., and fresh milk – from 18 to 5 percent. State Secretary in the Ministry of agriculture Istvan Nagy appreciated on Tuesday, what will this mean for the average Hungarian family annual savings in the order of 25-30 thousand. HUF (356-427 RUB).
Nagy noted that this decrease is part of a long process of reducing VAT on basic food products. As he said, it started from last year the reduction in VAT on fresh pork from 27 to 5 jobs.
As told the news Agency MTI, the VAT reduction may in future include, for example, fish, vegetables and fruits or bread. The magazine “Magyar Idoek” and filed on Tuesday that the decline may relate to cream, cottage cheese and pork offal.
Nagya sector of pork production was in crisis, when the reduced VAT, and the result of this step, the consumption of this meat increased, and simultaneously increased the purchase price, thereby stabilized the situation and manufacturers. Nagy expressed the hope that the same will happen in the industry of dairy and poultry.
the head of the Council Poultry Products Attila Csorbai spoke positively Tuesday about reducing VAT. In his opinion, she already changed it inequality birds in competition with pork that caused last year’s VAT reduction for meat.
the Chairman of the Branch Organization and the Council of Dairy Tibor Melykuti noticed that the producers of the demanded VAT reduction not only for fresh milk, but the milk is UHT and ESL. He noted that fresh milk accounts for only 20 percent. milk consumed, and the rest falls on the two above-mentioned species, therefore, should reduce VAT on there, and also the cheese and cream.
Hungarian milk producers held last year, several protests against low prices of buying and the import of cheap milk imports. Showed that online shopping import and sell foreign dairy products at a lower price, jeopardizing their positions in the domestic market.
a representative of the grocery chain, Prima and CB Attila Fodor said on Tuesday that as a result of the reduction in VAT from Sunday dropped its retail prices of fresh milk, eggs and poultry – milk an average of 10 per cent., and poultry and eggs by 17 per cent. According to him, this will lead to an increase in turnover of the Hungarian articles of this kind, as it happened last year with pork.
Hungarian socialist Party appreciated meanwhile in a statement that ran fides deceiving voters as falling prices of these commodities will be short-lived, and then again raise.
Margaret Wyrzykowska, PAP,
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