This consumer organization hundred will report before this Thursday National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) a eight big chains supermarkets that they do not comply with the norm mandating VAT reduction on a number of essential foods and this is recorded in the final selling price. The entity shall charge the cost of these items. to the field, Took, Carrefour, Day, eros, lidl, hyperchorus Y Mercadona In the case of Mercadona and Hipercor, they found irregularities in all of them, although they attributed them more to a specific error.
In fact, in both cases, only one irregularity was detected between the 84 prices examined in the former and the 76 prices examined in the latter. Inside Supermarket owned by Juan Roig It’s about bread and Chain attached to El Corte Inglés, with strawberries. On the other hand, the non-compliance rate was 17% in Dia (14 out of 81 products did not comply with the VAT discount rule), 10% in Carrefour (11 out of 113 products); 8.6% in Eroski (8 out of 92) and Lidl (6 out of 70); 7.8% (5 out of 64) in Aldi and 6.25% (6 out of 96) in Alcampo.
In most cases, the blame is that these companies charge the same fees for these products as they did in the last days of 2022, so they won’t. Reflecting the VAT discount on the final product. However, 7 out of 50 violations are items that become more expensive.
“We ask the CNMC to investigate practices, initiate disciplinary proceedings, and investigate whether the prices charged represent an increase in commercial profit margins as prohibited by regulation or justify increases in the costs of these products,” he claimed. Facua General Secretary, Ruben Sanchez. “We’re concerned that the neighborhood merchants, baker or fisherman don’t affect the VAT reduction, we should tell them they should,” added the spokesperson.
price intervention
Sánchez took this opportunity and more direct price interventionnot because of a VAT rebate that translates into a savings of cents on every product for the consumer. “The measure we claim is a price intervention for the implementation of Article 13 of the Law. retail law 1996″, he insisted again today. “Consumers do not strongly notice the decrease in VAT”, he confirmed.
In any case, the organization’s secretary general assured that Facua will continue to monitor prices in the coming months, and has supported both CNMC and autonomous communities do the same thing. Everyone’s effort should be added to control the market,” he said.