Basic foods have once again recovered the normal VAT, in this way foods such as bread recover the 4% rate and pasta and some oils once again pay 10%. Faced with the end of the reductions in this tax since 2025, many experts have spoken out, and even some, such as the well-known economist Gonzalo Bernardos, launch their requests to the Government.
The economics professor at the University of Barcelona made a request to the Government last Epiphany. In the program ‘La Sexta Xplica’ of ‘La Sexta’ he asks him to, If you are really leftist, reconsider the elimination of this tax reduction.
Before launching this message, Bernardos explains that to date, Pedro Sánchez’s Government has been doing well. According to the teacher, he has applied measures to improve “the lives of those who have the least, that is, those who earn the minimum wage and pensioners”. With them, he explains, that these people “they do not lose purchasing power like with Rajoy.”
Gonzalo Bernardos’ request to the Government of Spain
Although to date Gonzalo Bernardos thinks that the Government has been doing well, he believes that it can continue to do better. And one of the ways to do it, according to the professor, is with VAT reductions on these basic foods. But What does the economist ask of the Government of Spain?
After asking the Government to reconsider, as previously stated, the professor continues to send his message. For Bernardos “To be leftist is to take and reduce the VAT on basic foods, “To be leftist is to not charge 21% VAT on electricity.”
Once the request has been made, compare these two taxes with what may be charged in education and health: “Is it true that there is no VAT in education, there is no VAT in healthcare?” and ask “Why does there have to be VAT on basic foods?”
For Bernardos, it is very good that the Government has improved the income of Spanish families that have the least, but “he has to do even better and try to “Those families, with the money they earn, can reach more to cover their basic needs.”