Public Sector Unions with Their Proposal to Reduce VAT
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The Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions has submitted an initiative to the National Assembly to amend the Value Added Tax Act, which, according to Secretary General Martina Vuk, will bring lower prices for basic foodstuffs and energy products. She recalled that a lower VAT is also envisaged in the intervention law, which will be decided on in a referendum, but according to her, this does not guarantee lower prices for people.
"Our law contains all the necessary safeguards that will force retail chains to actually reduce prices in the same proportion as the VAT will be reduced," emphasized Martina Vuk, Secretary General of the Slovenian Confederation of Trade Unions, when submitting the VAT bill to the National Assembly.
The Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (KSJS) has submitted an initiative to the National Assembly to amend the Value Added Tax Act, which, according to Secretary General Martina Vuk, will result in lower prices for basic foodstuffs and energy products. Prime Minister Janez Janša called the move ridiculous and reminded that the lower VAT is envisaged by an intervention law, which will be decided in a referendum.read more »
The Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions has submitted an initiative to the National Assembly to amend the Value Added Tax Act, which, according to Secretary General Martina Vuk, will bring lower prices for basic foodstuffs and energy products.
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