Estonia VAT cut on food and catering proposal

Parliament review VAT rate cuts to food, restaurants and other services

The Riigikogu, the Parliament of Estonia, is reviewing a Bill to reduce to the reduced VAT rate of 5% the following supplies:

• Food excluding alcohol and tobacco
• Restaurant and catering
• feed and mixed feed and the raw materials and additives used for their production, industrial waste used as animal food and feed raw materials

Estonia’s inflation, at over 22%, if currently the highest in the Eurozone.

April 2022: Temporary cut from 20% to 9% VAT on domestic gas and electricity May 2023

Estonia is looking at a temporary VAT rate cut on home energy from 1 May 2022 until 1 May 2023.

Many other European VAT energy and food cuts have been introduced as inflation has rocketed.

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