REGION DE MURCIA / 130,000 signatures to join the initiative on VAT for food donation

Source: Andas Alimentos Solidarios

On December 4 we made the presentation and delivery in the Register of the Cortes Generales in the Congress of Deputies, of the more than 130,000 signatures of adhesion of the Initiative on the VAT of the DONATION OF FOOD that we do the citizens that consists basically asking the Government, the Ministry of Finance and Public Function that the amount of that VAT be allocated to donate more food.

If we consider a 7.5% average VAT rate on food and we apply it to the more than 21 million kilos donated by citizens of all of Spain in the recent Great Collection 2018 of the Food Bank, we could have donated 1 , 6 million kilos more with the same disbursement from donors.

We were accompanied on the spot by Deputies from various Parliamentary Groups, our deepest gratitude to them, to Change and to the media that were also there.

Prior to the delivery of signatures, we had a meeting with the Popular Parliamentary Group and in it, our Initiative was very well received and valued, as it is happening in all that we have had with other Parliamentary Groups and we want to have with all, what we It makes us optimistic and have well-founded hopes that, with the help of all, we will achieve the solidarity, humanitarian and deep-seated objectives and general interest that we have set for ourselves.