Consolidation also affected services, with prices rising the most in more than a year. The transaction tax will also increase inflation

Already when the government included in its consolidation package an increase in the base rate of VAT from 20 to 23 percent last year, experts warned that it was necessary to prepare for a change in the course of hitherto successfully subsiding inflation. At present, we are already observing this effect with our own eyes. The pace of year-on-year price growth has already climbed to four percent in March, according to new data from the Bureau of …