Left wants to maintain zero VAT on food

• The Left wants to maintain a zero VAT rate on food.
• The zero VAT rate on food was introduced on February 1, 2022, and is set to expire at the end of the current year.
• Members of the Law and Justice party have proposed extending the zero VAT rate on food until the end of June 2024.
• Leftist MP Tomasz Trela supports maintaining the zero VAT rate if it is financially feasible.
• Former Minister Waldemar Buda warns that the prices of basic goods for Poles could increase by several percent from January 1, 2024.
• Trela criticizes Buda’s statement, pointing out that Buda was involved in the budget preparations for 2024, which included a 5% VAT rate on food.

Source: podatki.gazetaprawna.pl

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