The VAT on the truffle falls: will we be able to pay it less?
The VAT on the truffle falls: will we be able to pay it less?

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Video: The VAT on the truffle falls: will we be able to pay it less?
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Twist: the VAT of the truffle will drop from 22% to 10%, most likely. According to La Stampa, Asti edition, the news is certain. We have made the necessary checks, this is not yet the case: the question is under discussion in the Chamber, because Italian law must "adapt to European legislation".

Starting at 30 euros the scratch and if you want to be really cool, put it on the egg: the contrast between poor food and luxury food (take a look at the truffle bag) is beyond the soft-crunchy, definitely beyond.

Who knows if i prices to the public of Tuber Magnatum Pico they will really go down when the tax rate is reduced.

To understand something, let's take a step back.

The Marche town of Acqualagna and the city of Sunrise (that of the International Alba White Truffle Fair, precisely) have made the big voice in the European Commission.

Unfair competition is the basis of their claims: while in other countries the truffle is an agricultural product (and as such its rate varies between 4% and 10%) the same thing does not happen in Italy, where taxation is at 22%. %. Not a cure-all for our business.

Europe said "you are right" and formalized everything with a nice warning. And here we come to our government, which seems to have decided to lower VAT.

Trifolao
Trifolao

However, it is not enough: for the cities of truffles, the mushroom (because it is a mushroom, not a tuber) must become an agricultural product. Spontaneous.

And luckily it is spontaneous, I say: if they had found a way to grow it, we would no longer have a drop of Barolo from Piedmont, with hills of oaks instead of vines.

MEP Alberto Cirio, depositary of the Alba petition, explained to Dissapore:

“The truffle, as an agricultural product, would allow us to access European funds, to be spent on the protection of the woods. Furthermore, we would solve the problem of the supply chain, it is our opportunity to eliminate the black market and make the provenance responsible”.

The trifolao (the truffle digger) according to current legislation can remain anonymous: he goes, finds (basically at night, almost always with a dog close by), collects, pays a registration card and then sells his product to traders, without leave a trace of itself.

If the truffle became an agricultural product, it would speak of traceability. Also fiscal.

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