Government spokesman: Anti-inflation shields will be maintained if necessary

If there is still a need for it, anti-inflation shields will be maintained, government spokesman Piotr Mueller said.

“Our government always reacts during crises. Financial, anti-crisis and anti-inflation shields were activated when necessary. That will remain the case in the future. If there is still a need for it, anti-inflation shields will be maintained. Now, month after month, inflation is falling. The PiS government guarantees that this will continue,” Mueller wrote on the social networking site.

Tusk: There will be no anti-inflation shield, they will reinstate VAT on food

Earlier, Civic Platform president Donald Tusk said at a meeting in Gdańsk that there would be no anti-inflation shield in next year’s budget and that VAT on food would be reinstated.

– These days you don’t get any information in their government media. I got her. About the fact that in next year’s budget there will no longer be a shield that protects against at least some of the effects of inflation. That they will reintroduce VAT on food, argued the PO leader.

Today, Kaczyński and Morawiecki can say the same: “the government will feed itself”. The government is doing a great job with this inflation, Tusk said.

Government: There are still PLN 12 billion in Poland’s wallet

The anti-inflation shield is a zero VAT rate on basic food products, extended until the end of 2023. “In the fight against inflation and the crisis caused by Russia, the most important thing for us is to protect the wallets of Poles,” emphasizes the government.

So far, thanks to this solution, about 12 billion złoty has remained in the purses of the Poles. It is estimated that this will amount to about PLN 19 billion by the end of 2023.

The food shield came into effect in February 2022. VAT was only reduced on goods that were taxed at a rate of 5%. That’s about 80 percent. purchases of Polish women and Poles.

Deputy Finance Minister Sebastian Skuza announced on Thursday that the draft budget for 2024 does not provide for the maintenance of the anti-inflation shield. He reserved that he did not know what the final “political decision” would be.

Source: Do Rzeczy

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