The Government’s position on a possible reduction in VAT on the price of eggs
The Minister of Economy, Commerce and Business, Carlos Bodyavoided commenting this Wednesday on whether the Government is considering lowering the VAT on eggs, whose price accumulates an increase of 18% in 2025.
Body responded in this way to the PNV deputy Joseba Andoni Agirretxea, who asked the Executive about the measures it was going to take in this regard and pointed out, directly, to lower the VAT of this “basic and healthy” product for the diet, and that, therefore, cannot become “a luxury good”.
Agirretxea pointed out that the increase in the price of eggs responds to avian flu, production costs, consumer demand and European regulatory issues, but warned the Government that the consumer should not pay for this. “If you don’t intervene by creating a certain firewall, prices end up rising”warned the deputy ‘jeltzale’.
Body explained that inflation has been rising in Europe since 2022, when suffered “the biggest price shock”although since then the purchasing power of citizens has recovered, also in Spain.
Likewise, he recognized that there are prices that concern citizens “in a timely manner”, such as It happened in 2023 with olive oil and now with eggs.
Corps explained that part of this increase is due to the need to “sacrifice around 5% of the Spanish census” and having to do a “preventive confinement of free-range birds”to avoid contagion, since there are outbreaks in Germany, the United Kingdom or France.
The Minister of Economy assured that work is being done with the Ministry of Agriculture to continue “evaluating and monitoring” both the risk that exists and the measures that must be taken.
However, he specified that the impact of the increase in the price of eggs only represents “two per thousand of the entire basket” and “has not significantly affected food prices as a whole”.
