Garzón rejects lowering VAT on food and insists that it is the supermarkets that have to moderate prices

The Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, has rejected the PP's proposal to lower VAT on basic foods,

and as also defended by the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, and continues to defend that they be distributors who make an effort to "moderate prices"

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and there is almost "no ability to improve the situation there", since the reduction for the consumer would be "a few cents" and state income would be reduced, according to Said in statements to TVE collected by the Europa Press agency.

It also insists on requesting that the large distribution companies "moderate the prices of the basic shopping basket because they have room to do so, based on the benefits they record."

The minister thus remains alone in defending this idea, which seems to have already been banished by the Minister of Labor,

, who opened the debate a few weeks ago by proposing that the large chains agree to freeze the prices of a basic basket.

The minister met with the main associations that represent these chains, and agreed to meet at another meeting to deepen this idea, although there have been no contacts again.

The sector fully criticized this idea, considering it illegal, and also the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) itself has already warned that it meant creating a cartel.

Now Díaz is in favor of lowering VAT on food, and he has raised it with the PSOE in the budget negotiation.

Garzón, on the contrary,

but "from "implausible" arguments because, as he has said, some "have recorded profits of 600 million euros and have distributed dividends worth 150 million".

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, asked the Government on Monday to lower the VAT on basic products in the shopping basket from 10% to 4%.

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