- 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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