US EditionBrussels Warns Spain and Poland over Fuel Vat Cuts
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Spain and Poland may have violated EU rules by reducing value-added tax (VAT) on fuel, the European Commission warned today. Reducing VAT on fossil fuels is not allowed, but reducing excise duties could be one solution, they said in Brussels, according to the French news agency AFP.
The European Commission announced that it had sent a letter to Poland and Spain informing their authorities that the EU VAT directive does not include a provision for reducing this tax on fossil fuels.
The European Commission has warned Poland and Spain that reducing VAT on fuel is a violation of EU law.
The third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, has defended the measure taken by the Government of Spain to reduce the VAT on fuels in an extraordinary way, from 21% to 10%, to deal with the impact of the crisis of the conflict in the Middle East as "completely justified in the current situation". In statements to the press after having a meeting with the agents of the gas and oil…
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