Beer paid 230 million VAT and IEC in 2014 – Journal of Business – Portugal

Beer paid 230 million VAT and IEC in 2014 – Journal of Business – Portugal

On the day announced a complaint against the Portuguese State for tax discrimination, brewers took stock of activity in 2014. Internal market fell 3.5%.

Members of the Portuguese beer producers Association – among which is Unicer, the Beers Center and Sumol + Compal – paid in 2014, a total of 161.5 million euros of Tax Value Added Tax (VAT) and 68.5 million euros Special Tax on Consumption (IABA- Tax on Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages).

In total the rate of 23% VAT eao IEC charge generated revenues for the State of 230.071 million euros, representing a decline of 1%, according to the PRCA, compared to 232.33 million euros paid to public coffers in 2013.

With less productive unit in 2013 – since the Unicer shifted part of the beer production from Santarem to Leca do Bailio, ending the center of the unit – the five operating breweries in mainland Portugal, Madeira and Azores produced 7.29 million hectoliters of beer last year.

The volume represents an increase of 0.7% compared to 2013, said this Thursday, February 12, the direction of the PRCA, which however declined . in advance the production and sales in value

Internal market retreats 3.5%

The data released by the PRCA – that is “100% of the sector “brewer in Portugal. – point to a consumption of 4.764 million hectoliters in the domestic market, a decrease of 3.5% over the full 12 months of 2013

From that amount, 64% was consumed via Horeca- channel Hotels, Restaurants and Cafes, representing an increase of 1.6% compared to 2013.

A positive development, even though the VAT in the restoration have not reset the intermediate rate of 13%, which John Abecassis, president of PRCA justified by the increase of tourism, in particular in Lisbon, Porto and Algarve

So, in the alimentary canal. – measured mainly by sales in supermarkets and hypermarkets – the share ended smaller in 2014 in 36%.

In Portugal, last year, beer consumption per capita fell to an indicative average of 46 liters per person per year (compared to over one liter in 2013).

To the outside, beer sales produced in Portugal increased by 4.6% to 2.624 million hectoliters.