Na Indeed, each level from the field to the sales counter must pay a transactional tax that the importers of goods from abroad will only pay once. In addition to constantly increasing taxes, levies and wages, they will not be able to maintain current sales prices. Thursday alerted this Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Slovak Association of Bakers, Confectioners and Travelers (SZPCC) Milan Lapšanský.
“We understand the need for consolidation of the state budget, but it must be clearly said that the transaction tax will hit the hardest of those food producers who use home raw materials and home processing capacities,” He warned Lapšanský. According to him, the new tax will significantly benefit foreign imports that have been growing for several years and fundamentally weaken domestic food producers.
According to the head of the union, the tax is most affected by the small and medium -sized operations of bakers and confectioners who are unable to use the savings from the scope and are not able to reduce the number of transactions. Since the volumes of transactions are low, they will have to pay this new tax in full.
Lapšanský stressed that Slovak food producers are currently not currently in any state support. Unlike farmers, they are unable to compensate for the increasing costs of labor, raw materials or tax-duties, which is the highest in Slovakia in the European Union. Right The sector of producing bread, pastries, cakes and pasta is the largest in terms of the number of operations in the country and employs more than a third of people working in the food industry.
Another negative impact will be an increase in corporate income taxes in 2025, What, according to the head of the bakery union, will significantly reduce the possibilities of investment in further development or reduction of costs.
“For Slovak bread, pastry, desserts and pasta producers, it will be very difficult to maintain the current price level without any significant impact on their management. On the one hand, we pay more and more, on the other hand, the manufacturers’ support has ended last year. Our sector barely cost an increase in extra charges for work at night, weekends and holidays. I cannot imagine how our manufacturers would not be able to reflect an increase in costs into sales prices, ” He added Lapšanský.
Unless the state does not support producers, food production will begin to decline in Slovakia. According to Lapšanský, it is important to realize that only retail chains decide what assortment on the Slovak shelves. “If the state does not recover, consumers will not find high quality Slovak food in the future,” He underlined Lapšanský.
