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Erfurt (dpa / th) - After the VAT cut expired, consumer prices in Thuringia continued to rise.
The annual inflation rate in February was 1.4 percent, as the State Statistical Office announced on Friday in Erfurt.
In January it was 1.3 percent.
In a month-on-month comparison, consumer prices rose by 0.6 percent in February.
In a year-on-year comparison, consumers had to dig deeper into their pockets for food and non-alcoholic beverages (plus 2.3 percent), among other things.
According to statisticians, there were sharp price increases for vegetables (plus 5.7 percent), dairy products and eggs (plus 3.9 percent) and fruit (plus 3.0 percent).
Services provided by social institutions were 1.9 percent more expensive than in February 2020.
Customers had to pay 16 percent more for services from outpatient care facilities and 15.7 percent more for those from nursing homes.
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Despite the new CO2 taxes, household energy and fuel prices were still 1.3 percent lower than a year ago.
Heating oil (minus 6.9 percent), district heating (minus 5.1 percent) and electricity (minus 2.1 percent) were also cheaper year-on-year.
From January to February, however, fuel prices rose by 1.3 percent.
Heating oil rose by 8.1 percent within a month.
After the VAT cut expired at the end of 2020, inflation had already jumped in January.
In addition, a CO2 tax of 25 euros per tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted was introduced at the beginning of 2021.
Among other things, CO2 is produced when diesel, gasoline, heating oil and natural gas are burned.
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