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According to legislative changes that came into effect on 1 July, all food services are to be subject to the intermediate rate of VAT - which is 13% in mainland Portugal, 9% in the Azores and 12% in Madeira.
The new rate applies to all food sold in restaurants while for beverages the rate will vary. Alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, fruit juices and sparing water will remain subject to the top rate of VAT, while for still water, tea, coffee and mil the intermediate rate applies.
Takeaways and prepared food delivered to customer's homes is also to include the intermediate rate for food and the differing rules for drinks.
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Back to school for someone,a cut in the tax rate from 23% to 13% is NOT 10%.
from CS in the UK
By colin smith from UK on 07 Jul 2016, 07:45
Please ignore Colin Smith's comment..Pedantry is rife in the UK. To be more precise the wording may be amended to
" The VAT rate has been reduced from 23% to 13%, a drop of 10 per cent"....Frankly anyone witha modicum of common sense would not have been misled by your original sentence.
Another point...; Is the Portugal News the successor the the Anglo-Portuguese News of the 60s and 70s published and edited by Luis Marques to whom I was introduced by mutual friends and I was delightfully entertained by him and his English wife Susan?
By Noel Francis from UK on 31 Jul 2016, 19:16
WHAT IS THE VAT FOR COFFEE IN CAPSULE AND TEA BAG IN SUPERMARKET SINCE THE PRICES ARE STILL THE SAME
By ALAIN KWO from Other on 01 Aug 2020, 17:01