The Left and the country's largest trade union: VAT should be lowered on all food products.

Venstre and the country's largest trade union: VAT should be lowered on all food products

The announcement comes from a debate article with Stephanie Lose (V) and 3F's union president as authors.

Venstre and 3F want VAT lowered on all food products. (Photo: © Ida Marie Odgaard, Ritzau Scanpix) 20 minutes ago

There is disagreement among the government parties about how to make shopping cheaper at home.

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The Moderates want VAT removed on fruits and vegetables.

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The Social Democrats want to distribute food vouchers (https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/regeringen-vil-give-4-5-milliarder-kroner-i-foedevarecheck-til-udsatte-danskere) to certain segments of the population and are open to either lowering VAT on food products broadly or removing it on fruits and vegetables.

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Venstre wants VAT lowered on all food products.

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The aforementioned party's wish is emphasized by Venstre's second-in-command, the country's economy minister, Stephanie Lose, in a joint debate article in Jyllands-Posten (https://jyllands-posten.dk/debat/breve/ECE18905737/venstre-og-3f-momsen-skal-saenkes-paa-alle-foedevarer/?fp-exp=60720001&fp-alg=607200011), which is also signed by the union's president, Henning Overgaard.

The debate article begins with, "3F and Venstre are not in agreement on everything, but when it comes to rising food prices, there is agreement. It should become cheaper to fill the shopping cart."

- Therefore, we must take an extraordinary step for Denmark and introduce a lower VAT on all food products, write Lose and Overgaard in the article.

By lowering VAT on all food products, "we affect everything that a completely ordinary Danish family puts in the shopping cart," it reads.

Venstre and 3F have come together for a debate article, in which they underscore the need for a lowering of VAT on all food products. (Photo: © Mads Claus Rasmussen and Mathias Svold/Ritzau Scanpix)

3F wants to lower VAT on food products from the current 25% to 20%, which aligns with party leader Troels Lund Poulsen's speech at Venstre's national meeting in October, where he expressed openness to lowering the food VAT.

Read also: Food voucher can be "measured in thousands" (https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/foedevarecheck-vil-kunne-maales-i-tusinder)

After the prime minister's New Year's speech, where Mette Frederiksen floated the idea of a food voucher on "a substantial amount" (https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/foedevarecheck-vil-kunne-maales-i-tusinder), Jan E. Jørgensen, Venstre's political spokesperson, emphasized that it would make the most sense to lower VAT broadly on food products instead of removing it from certain food products.

The point is underscored by Stephanie Lose and 3F in today's debate article:

- It is important for both 3F and Venstre, that we also in the future have a VAT system that can handle, it reads.

Read also: Lower VAT on fruits and vegetables can be a windfall for consumers (https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/ekspert-lavere-moms-paa-frugt-og-groent-kan-vaere-en-gulerod-forbrugerne)

If food products were to stop increasing in price - maybe even decrease - it is, according to 3F and Venstre, "not an argument to avoid lowering VAT," as one could then enjoy the fact that it becomes even cheaper to buy milk for breakfast products.

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